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| Directed by | Cem Yılmaz Ali Taner Baltacı |
| Produced by | Necati Akpinar |
| Written by | Cem Yılmaz |
| Starring | Cem Yılmaz Mazhar Alanson Özlem Tekin Tuna Orhan |
| Music by | Ozan Çolakoğlu |
| Cinematography | Uğur İçbak |
| Editing by | Engin Öztürk |
| Studio | Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi |
| Distributed by | KenDa Film |
| Release date(s) | October 20, 2006 |
| Running time | 119 mins |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| Box office | $9,146,764 |
The Magician (Turkish: Hokkabaz) is a 2006 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by Cem Yılmaz and Ali Taner Baltacı, about a magician who tours around Turkey with his father and best friend so that he can make enough money for laser eye surgery. The film, which was released on October 20, 2006, was short-listed for Turkey's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards but lost out to Takva.[1]
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The film was shot on location in Istanbul, Gallipoli and Eceabat, Turkey.[2]
Iskender is a juggler. Actually he is a magician but everybody else except himself and his childhood friend Maradona, thinks he is a juggler. The two friends undertake a great deal of risk by including Sait to their tour program while they are forced to escape Istanbul. Moreover Father Sait had quit appreciating Iskender years ago. While the tour makes them come much closer, it also results in a magnificent fall-out. Iskender, Maradona and Sait, keep coming back together and falling out with their fellow traveler Fatma.
The film opened in 378 screens across Turkey on October 20, 2006 at number one in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of $1,462,608 and was later released across a number of European territories.[3]
| Date | Territory | Screens | Rank | Gross |
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| October 20, 2006 | Turkey | 378 | 1 | $1,462,608 |
| October 25, 2006 | Belgium | 6 | 19 | $38,916 |
| October 26, 2006 | Germany | 52 | 12 | $198,149 |
| October 26, 2006 | Austria | 4 | 13 | $41,780 |
| October 26, 2006 | Netherlands | 17 | 14 | $53,749 |
| October 27, 2006 | United Kingdom | 4 | 24 | $34,704 |
The film was number one at the Turkish box office for two weeks running and has made a total worldwide gross of $9,146,764.[3]
Todd Brown, writing for Twitch Film, notes that this film, looks to be a beautifully shot piece of work, and that, while it was impossible not to see an awful lot of Mel Brooks influence on [the writer-director's previous film] G.O.R.A. this one sees Yilmaz in a much more restrained mode that I think plays a fair bit better.[4]
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