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İşte Hayat

1975

A gentle, comic caper that ambles along with warmth, poking fun at fame and family schemes without ever turning harsh.

Directed by
Atıf Yılmaz
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Hülya Koçyiğit, Uğur Dündar, Adile Naşit
Overview
The film tells the love story of a girl who wants to be famous and the television presenter she kidnaps. Ayşe is a poor girl who wants to be an actress. She and her mother Makbule make a plan to kidnap television presenter Uğur Dündar. Their goal is for Uğur to cast Ayşe in a film. To this end, they take inappropriate photos of Ayşe and use them to threaten Uğur. When the photographer who develops the films Makbule took recognizes Uğur, the police find him. Uğur also tries to make Ayşe an actress. However, as time goes on, Ayşe begins to realize she has no talent for it.

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Directed by
Atıf Yılmaz
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Hülya Koçyiğit, Uğur Dündar, Adile Naşit
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • celebrity
  • family
  • class
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
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Starring
Hülya Koçyiğit, Uğur Dündar, Adile Naşit, İhsan Yüce, Aydan Adan, Erol Batıbeki, Şevket Altuğ, Orhan Aydınbaş
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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