Canim Kardesim

The story is like the Grave of the Fireflies, which is the most impressive War-movie. This is the only film you can see Tarik Akan playing not a playboy in his youth. This is his best performance. Besides the best part of the movie is the music and scenario.

Don't ever miss this peak in Turkish drama

This film is clearly showing us the life of "the missing ones". In the middle of the poverty , ignorance and helplessness. One depressed effort against the death and trying to handle it with happiness.Maybe the only film of Ertem Egilmez (The builder of modern Turkish cinema),doesn't concern about the studio and ticket sales.

The movie contains outstanding performances of two very big Turkish actors (Tarik Akan and Halit Akçatepe) , also other very important actor and actresses in small roles such as Metin Akpinar,Kemal Sunal and Adile Naşit.

It is simply the peak of Turkish drama...

The story starts in a dark atmosphere, which is located slums of Istanbul in early 70's. During the movie athmospehere gets darker and darker and at last finishes in pitch black. This is quite interesting because in that period as a result of Turkish economy & life standards people would like to see classical comedy or happy endings at cinema contrary to this kind of desperate dramas.

Its about a little boy whom realizes that he has a leukemia whether his brother tries to hide the fact. They believe that they should make the boy really happy in his last days. This is also important because, fact that they are poor they never think about cures.

Not just the boy but also all the supporting roles are quite solid and they have their own stories. Like Halit's reaction to the "b-lady", Kahraman's fathers good old fortune stories, abroad passengers naiveté or what Mehmet does for living. Behind all these stories, Kahraman's perspective to the death shows complete childish purity.

Music is classic, acting is great(I would like to specify all the actors in the movie are famous for their characters in comedies.) Until Yılmaz Güney's "The Wall" and "The Road" movies this movie was probably the only one which was parallel to bulk of Turkish Population & Life Style.

I hope the production company clears the tape and makes a DVD copy of it with foreign subtitles. Because if Turkey has a movie to show to the world, well, this is it...

"Canim Kardesim" is the saddest movie of Turkish film industry aka. "Yesilcam". The director Ertem Egilmez is generally makes film on comedy. Back in days critics told him you can't shoot drama. And his answer was "I'm gonna shoot a drama and you all gonna cry." Finally he made this movie and we all crying every time we watched Canim Kardesim.

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