A man fakes a murder to get married. Turkish bureaucracy has other plans.
Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out.
Acting
Kemal Sunal's physical comedy of a man defeated by everything
Writing
Honor code logic so broken it becomes genius satire
Production
Anatolian village authenticity grounding the absurdity
Director
Kartal Tibet
Kemal Sunal
Memo
Şener Şen
Sülo
Adile Naşit
Hamo
Pembe Mutlu
Cano
Ayşen Gruda
Ayşo
İhsan Yüce
Ağa
Sırrı Elitaş
Bekiro
Ahmet Açan
Cano'nun Babası
Bahri Ateş
İmam
Muzaffer Cıvan
Meyhaneci
Cevdet Balıkçı
Bekiro'nun adamı
Abdi Algül
Bekiro'nun adamı
Çetin Başaran
Bekiro'nun adamı
Yadigar Ejder
Bekiro'nun adamı
Osman Çağlar
Çoban Ali
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Davaro belongs to the 'töre' (honor) comedy subgenre, where rural Turkish traditions become engines of absurdity. Kemal Sunal made roughly 80 films—this captures his peak everyman appeal.
The fake death scene required Şener Şen to play dead for an extended single take while Sunal panicked around him—reportedly improvised chaos that Kartal Tibet kept.
TR
