My Father and My Son

My Father and My Son Turkish Babam ve Olum is a 2005 Turkish drama film written and directed by aan Irmak about a family torn apart by the 1980 Turkish coup dtat. The film which went on nationwide release on November18,200520051118 became one of the highestgrossing Turkish films in history.

However worse days are ahead for Sadk. In the early hours of the morning on September 12, 1980 Sadks pregnant wife starts having contractions. The couple runs outside, but they cant find anyone to take them to the hospital, due to a curfew. The country has been taken over in a military coup. Sadks wife gives birth in a park and dies, but their son, Deniz, possibly named after leftist youth icon Deniz Gezmi, survives.Because of his political activities, Sadk is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for three years during which time he loses his health. A few years after being released, he finds out that he will die. Having no other choice, he takes Deniz back to his family farm on the Aegean into the care of his mother and his father, who still does not speak to him. For Deniz, who is absorbed in the magical world of comic books, meeting his relatives on the farm is a new experience. There is his grandmother Hmeyra Akbay who drives a tractor and speaks on a short wave radio, his aunt Hanife Binnur Kaya who wears bracelets from her wrist all the way to her shoulder, and his uncle Yetkin Dikinciler who is a little naive. ........

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