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Agir Roman

  • 1997
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
11K
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Müjde Ar, Okan Bayülgen, and Mustafa Ugurlu in Agir Roman (1997)
CrimeDramaRomance

A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.

  • Director
    • Mustafa Altioklar
  • Writers
    • Mustafa Altioklar
    • Metin Kaçan
  • Stars
    • Okan Bayülgen
    • Müjde Ar
    • Savas Dinçel
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mustafa Altioklar
    • Writers
      • Mustafa Altioklar
      • Metin Kaçan
    • Stars
      • Okan Bayülgen
      • Müjde Ar
      • Savas Dinçel
    • 12User reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 7 nominations

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    Müjde Ar in Agir Roman (1997)
    Mustafa Ugurlu in Agir Roman (1997)
    Müjde Ar and Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Mustafa Altioklar in Agir Roman (1997)
    Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Müjde Ar and Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Müjde Ar and Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Müjde Ar and Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
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    Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)
    Okan Bayülgen in Agir Roman (1997)

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    Okan Bayülgen
    Okan Bayülgen
    • Salih
    Müjde Ar
    Müjde Ar
    • Tina
    Savas Dinçel
    • Berber Ali
    Mustafa Ugurlu
    Mustafa Ugurlu
    • Reis
    Fatih Akyol
    • Mahallenin Sopari
    Zafer Algöz
    • Gaftici Fethi
    Mehtap Ar
    Ege Aydan
    Nilüfer Aydan
    Nilüfer Aydan
    Balik Ayhan
    Levent Erim
    • Fil Hamit
    Zühtü Erkan
    • Tibi
    Sevda Ferdag
    Sevda Ferdag
    • Emine
    Aysel Gürel
    • Puma Zehra
    Kucuk Iskender
    • Orhan
    Emrah Kolukisa
    • Reco
    Burak Sergen
    • Arap Sado
    Osman Çaglar
    • Kolera Canavari
    • Director
      • Mustafa Altioklar
    • Writers
      • Mustafa Altioklar
      • Metin Kaçan
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    • Trivia
      Metin Kaçan, the Nobel writer killed himself by jumping from the Istanbul bridge after a heavy depression.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Head-On (2004)

    User reviews12

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    Life in spite of everything
    I can say that this movie is one of the best Turkish movies in the 90s knowing that it was nominated for many awards in several film festivals. The story is about a family who's living in a suburban in Istanbul. This big city, that we know better for the Bosphorus, its history and all the beauty that it's surrounded with, has also another aspect: a society even stranger to the most parts of Istanbul that still has hope and will to survive. The youngest boy of this family, Salih, is the center of the chain of events of this poor neighborhood. He falls in love with a prostitute and has to prove his power against the villain who is a threat to everyone living up there. Love, family, passion, death, pain are the main themes as well as hope and rage which define the life in this area. People need to fight in order to survive. In the end, the tragic chain of events keeps going on as if in old Greek tragedies. All of the actors are quite convincing, especially the villain played by Mustafa Uğurlu who succeeds in being a sadistic killer and his rival, the prostitute's young lover played by Okan Bayülgen who is a famous TV star in Turkey. The growing cultural differences in Turkey creates such problems not only in İstanbul, but also in many other big industrial cities. By watching this movie, you get to face the facts that these stories are real and inevitable. The suburbia in he movie is called "Kolera - Cholera" like the illness bringing only dead, but the people still have dreams and hopes and fighting against it. I highly recommend you watch this movie to see some rare examples of good Turkish films and also to know more about the life in the poor areas in Turkey.
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    • Arianrhod_B
    • May 2, 2002

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    • Release date
      • November 28, 1997 (Turkey)
    • Countries of origin
      • Turkey
      • Hungary
      • France
    • Language
      • Turkish
    • Also known as
      • Cholera Street
    • Production companies
      • Belge Film
      • Focus Film
      • Les Films Singuliers
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color

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