The Enemy (1980)
2h 5m
Running Time
January 2, 1980
Release Date
Plot.
Ismail (Aytac Arman) is the educated Turk who travels to Asia from Istanbul to escape crushing unemployment in this somber social drama. With an ailing mother-in-law, a bitter wife, and a pretty young daughter to , he takes a job as a dog killer. Ismail is saddened to see young women his daughter's age forced into prostitution. When he returns home to ask his father and brother for an advance on his inheritance, his wife leaves him. The enemy in question refers to unemployment.
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Cast & Crew.
Aytaç Arman
Ismail
Güngör Bayrak
Naciye
Ahmet Açan
Lütfü Engin
Hüseyin Kutman
Şevket Altuğ
Abdullah
Muadelet Tibet
Ahmet Sert
Hasan Ceylan
Feyyat
Niyazi Vanlı
Sıdıka Duruer
Fehmi Yasar
Actor
Abdi Algül
Güven Şengil
Nuri
Kamil Sönmez
Rifat
Zeki Ökten
Director / Editor
Yılmaz Güney
Writer / Producer
Arif Sağ
Compositor
Yavuz Top
Compositor
Çetin Tunca
Cinematography
Mevlüt Koçak
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release Date
January 2, 1980
Original Name
Düşman
Status
Released
Running Time
2h 5m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Enemy (Turkish: Düşman) is a 1979 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by Yılmaz Güney with Zeki Ökten during Güney's second imprisonment, featuring Aytaç Arman as Ismail an overqualified young Turkish worker who unable to find employment is reduced to poisoning the local stray dogs and begging his father for part of his inheritance. The film was screened in competition for the Golden Bear at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival in 1980, where it won an Honourable Mention and the OCIC Award. It was also scheduled to compete in the cancelled 17th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, for which it received four Belated Golden Oranges, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.
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