The Crab Game

The Crab Game Turkish Yenge Oyunu is a 2009 Turkish drama film written and directed by Ali zgentrk.

Asya Aya nci is a research assistant working in the history department of a university in stanbul. Taking her 5yearold daughter with her, Asya embarks on a journey back to her hometown with the dream of starting over again. There she gets a new job at a school. She starts working on a project that is about to change her entire life along with that of her students. While conducting research on old Ottoman court documents, Asya and her students come across an interesting incident. In the year 1917, a local mobster called Yenge Salih killed a midwife called Nuriye, claiming that she was a prostitute. Charges were dropped against Salih when he told the court that he killed the woman for the sake of the neighborhoods reputation. The students, struck with the injustice in this case, decide to reenact the case and try Salih one more time.The film opened in 51 screens across Turkey on April3,200920090403 at number thirteen in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of 14,095. ........

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