Canim Kardesim

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...

"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.

You will never forget this movie. Drama reaches at its highest point with full of friendship, brotherhood and desperation. By the way, Kemal Sunal and Metin Akpinar who are the most popular comedians in Turkish cinema sector appear and add more and more value to movie besides wonderful performance of Tarik Akan and Halit Aktacatepe.

I remember how we rejoiced when a television was brought into our house, in almost the same years, when I was also around the age of Kahraman (the little boy in the movie) and we were living in a ghetto as poor as the one in the movie. One of those years I lost my elder sister in a traffic accident, who was going to primary school in a neighborhood on the opposite side of the highway, because there was no school in our newly "built" slum. I wasn't aware of the severeness of the tragedy because of my age but my "dear mother" suffered from that incident all her life. Thereby I witness the movie is so real, besides being one of the best drama movies of the movie industry - FYI, I don't only mean among the Turkish films.

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