A man flees his village, saves a woman, and falls into Istanbul's chaos—classic Turkish melodrama with teeth.
Kerem, who lives in a small town in Anatolia, goes to Istanbul on a business opportunity. However, things there do not go as planned and he remains unemployed. Meanwhile, the young man, who stayed with an old friend, saved a woman's life. After that, a relationship develops between them.
Acting
Tarık Akan's wounded pride and quiet desperation carry every frame.
Direction
Elmas captures Istanbul as a devouring machine, not a dream.
Director
Orhan Elmas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1980s Turkey's massive rural-to-urban migration, when Anatolian villagers flooded Istanbul seeking work—Kerem's story was thousands of real stories.
Tarık Akan was Turkey's biggest star but famously left commercial cinema for political films; Yosma was one of his last mainstream melodramas before his ideological turn.
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