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After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has... more | add synopsisAwards:
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My favourite Yilmaz Guney film moreCast
(Credited cast) | Kerim Afsar | ... | Djemil |
| Azra Balkan | ... | Necibe, Djemil's wife |
| Civan Canova | ... | Halil |
| Melike Demirag | ... | Melike, Djemil's sister-in-law |
| Nizam Ergüden | ... | Muhittin, Djemil's brother |
| Yilmaz Güney | ... | Azem |
| Semra Ozdamar | ... | Semra |
| Ahu Tugbay | ... | Ahu |
| Yusuf Tunalioglu | ||
| Özden Yüce |
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This is my favourite film by Guney, an actor and director from Turkey who died in European exile in 1984. Other films like Yol and The Wall are better known, and I don't think a version of Arkadas is available subtitled in English or West European languages, but for me Arkadas has special appeal.
Guney was a well-known actor and director in Turkey before he made this film but this was the first one he tackled with a political theme - a risky thing to do. What might strike others as didactic in the film is for me a choice - do the characters opt for the mainstream, or do they swim against the stream? It is noticeable that the soundtrack sometimes has American or Western music, and sometimes what sounds like folk music from Anatolia. This is also meant to symbolise the choices the characters face.
Azem, the character played by Guney, is probably not meant to be the most left-wing or politicised character in the film (that would be Semra, who comes across as a little bit two-dimensional and only appears in a few scenes).
Azem leaves nobody unaffected by the end of the film, whether the characters end happily or not. When Cemil's wife slaps him, he says, "one day we will demand a reckoning, absolutely, one day", often taken to mean that the oppressed in Turkey will settle scores with their oppressors.