A father's dignity crumbles in 1970s Istanbul—where shame is currency and silence is survival.
Haşmet, who works as a civil servant in an office, lives a middle-class life with his family. A young man who works in the accounting department of the office proposes to Haşmet's daughter Nesrin. However, Nesrin has become pregnant after entering into a relationship with a wealthy man who promised to marry her. When the man disappears, Nesrin is forced to have an abortion. She goes to a woman named Necla for this purpose. During this time, Nesrin runs away from home on the day a suitor is supposed to visit. Taking refuge with Necla, Nesrin begins having relationships with men in exchange for money. Haşmet, unable to cope with the pain of losing his daughter, is struck by a second blow.
Acting
Sadri Alışık's Haşmet—dignity dissolving in real time.
Direction
Göreç's unblinking eye on bourgeois moral rot.
Director
Ertem Göreç
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Turkey's 1970s 'social realist' wave, when filmmakers used melodrama to critique rapid urbanization and crumbling traditional values.
Ertem Göreç was blacklisted multiple times; this film's abortion subplot nearly got it banned.
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