Credited cast: | |||
Sener Sen | ... | Ali Osman | |
Kenan Imirzalioglu | ... | Devran | |
Ismail Hacioglu | ... | Murat | |
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Asli Tandogan | ... | Karaca |
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Rasim Öztekin | ... | Sürmeli |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Ferdi Akarnur | ... | Talat |
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Muhammed Akay | ... | Koruma |
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Atakan Aksu | ... | Küçük Devran |
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Sehsuvar Aktas | ... | Taksi Soförü |
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Ayberk Atilla | ... | Hasan |
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Samim Baki | ... | Teoman |
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Tuncay Beyazit | ... | Baskomiser |
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Rana Cabbar | ... | Haco |
Furkan Ege | ... | Barda Eglenen | |
Bahtiyar Engin |
Ali Osman is living a quiet life after years of struggle, and tears. And he is slowly slipping into dementia. He made his peace with the horrible life he had and waiting for his final day to come. He then learns a long kept secret about a rebel boy whom happens to be his son. The boy is targeted by an insane mobster over a pretty singer girl. After a bloody firefight in a bar where she performs, the boy and the girl takes refuge in Ali Osman's life. Now Ali Osman is at a junction; will he break his vow of peace and take the matter into his hands or will he let dementia make him forget about everything? Written by Verminaard
Kabadayi was made very close to Eskiya. After the success of Eskiya, I think Yavuz Turgul tried to catch an opportunity with the same concept. If he use different story, I bet he would signed a signature on better movie.
Sener Sen was artistic indeed, he can play every kind of character with an accomplishment. I got astonished with the performance of Kenan Imirzalioglu. I did not think that he would play successfully bad tempered characters, bu he proved that he could. As always Rasim Oztekin did great performance. Performances of Ismail Hacioglu, Asli Tandogan and Süleyman Turan were not on the attic, I can say that they were distributed in the middle level.
Typical from 1970's Turkish movies cliché's were used in Kabadayi. There were humor also in the body of the movie. When the action goes on, we can hear funny jokes from characters. That makes smoother the story.
On the whole Kabadayi is a good movie but do not build your expectations on the peek.