Yıkılmayan Adam
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| Yıkılmayan Adam | |
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| Directed by | Remzi Aydın Jöntürk |
| Produced by | Hasan Baykara Deniz Kalkavan |
| Written by | Celal Uysal Ali Fuat Kalkan |
| Starring | Cüneyt Arkın Suna Yıldızoğlu Eşref Kolçak Levent Çakır |
| Release date(s) | 1977 |
| Language | Turkish |
Yıkılmayan Adam (Indestructible Man) is a Turkish highly charged political film by Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, the latest piece of his "Adam Trilogy". It comes after Yarınsız Adam (Man Without Tomorrow) of 1976 and Satılmış Adam (Sold Man) of 1977. Cüneyt Arkın is the leading actor of the film. The film tells the story of the class struggles in Turkey in late 1970s with an open style.
It is popular for its couple of scenes. First one is the "Bar Scene" where Çakır, portrayed by Cüneyt Arkın, gets angry at the youth in the bar because they are humiliating a veteran soldier. The second popular scene is the ending where everybody betrays Çakır and pointing their guns at him. While walking in front of the a crowd, Çakır gets killed but never falls to the ground, a symbol of the masses that won't surrender even in the case of death. Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, in fact, used a labor strike gathering organized by Revolutionary Labor Union (DISK) as the scene for this final displaying some of the banner of then-leftwing movement of DISK, which was later caused him to charged by the Military Court (see below).
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[edit] Prosecution of Remzi Aydın Jöntürk
As a result of some of the politically charged lines of the movie, in 1981 Remzi Aydın Jöntürk was falsely prosecuted for promoting Communism (Komunizm Propagandasi) by infamous The State Security Court established by the 1980 Turkish coup d'état of then dictator General Kenan Evren . However, unlike some of the other left wing artists of the time, Jöntürk had refused to flew to Western Europe following the Coup and faced the military courts. In 1985, the charges were dismissed following Turkey's return to democracy.
Following the charges, he was unable to find major projects to direct as the influence of military continue in State Film Censorship Board where many of Jöntürk's future films failed to pass without major modifications to scripts or re-edits until late 1980s, few years before his death in a car accident returning from directing the movie "Afrodit".
[edit] Characters
- Çakır or Yıkılmayan Adam - A patriot socialist who serves to Nadir Ağa.
- Nadir Ağa - A mafia leader who hire Çakır's father when he needed money to survive, then he looks after Çakır when he was sent to prison.
- Memduh - A rich businessman who doesn't care about other people. He wants to destroy Çakır to show his power.
- Fatoş - Daughter of Memduh, later lover of Çakır.
[edit] External links
- Final Part of the film where Çakır gets killed. (Turkish)
- Memduh fires all workers from his factory. (Turkish)
[edit] See also
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