The film tells the story of two old friends, Ahmet and Kemal, who work together to solve a murder. Ahmet, nicknamed "Baba," makes a living as an accountant. His son Ali, who works as a laborer at the same factory, is a union member. The factory manager pressures Ahmet to convince his son to leave the union. During a strike that breaks out at the factory, Ali is killed. Ahmet seeks help from Kemal, a businessman and his army buddy, to find his son's killer. Throughout this process, both Kemal and Ahmet begin to question their own lives.
Acting
Cüneyt Arkın's haunted eyes say everything dialogue refuses to.
Direction
Şerif Gören turns a factory into a pressure cooker of dread.
Writing
The friendship unravels with brutal economy — no speeches, just silence.
Director
Şerif Gören
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made four years before Turkey's brutal 1980 military coup, the film's factory strike eerily predicts the state violence to come.
Director Şerif Gören was briefly imprisoned after the coup; some critics read this film as his prescient warning that went unheeded.
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