A kidnapping gone soft: the Turkish mafia's toughest thug meets his match in a 9-year-old girl.
Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman.
Acting
Güney's weathered face does an entire film's worth of dialogue.
Direction
Shot while Güney was out on appeal — raw authenticity seeps through.
Cinematography
Cigarette smoke and Ankara streets shot like a funeral procession.
Director
Yılmaz Güney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Güney was Turkey's most famous actor-director and its most famous prisoner; he filmed this during a brief release while appealing a 19-year sentence for 'Communist propaganda'.
The child actress Fatma Karanfil was genuinely terrified of Güney during production — the director used this real fear to build their on-screen dynamic.
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