A broke football fanatic finds a baby on the road and accidentally becomes a dad—chaos ensues.
Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.
Acting
Kemal Sunal's rubber-faced everyman perfection.
Writing
Balances slapstick with genuine emotional gut-punches.
Director
Memduh Ün
Kemal Sunal
Kemal
Nilgün Saraylı
Nesrin Akman
Fatoş Sezer
Naci'nin Karısı
Reha Yurdakul
Kemal'in Arkadaşı
Sevil Üstekin
Şaheser
Aslan Altın
Naci Akman
Tuncer Sevi
Kemal'in Arkadaşı
Necdet Yakın
Mahalleli
Ekrem Dümer
Doktor
Ahmet Kostarika
İş Arayan Adam
Renan Fosforoğlu
Öksüzler Yurdu Müdürü
Nejat Gürçen
İş Adamı
Seyfettin Karadayı
Hakim
Zeki Sezer
Antikacı
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kemal Sunal was Turkey's most beloved comedian; this rare dramatic turn still packs theaters at retrospectives.
The film captures 1980s Istanbul's informal economy—Kemal's odd jobs reflect real precarity under military-era austerity.
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