Umut (film)

Hope Turkish Umut is a 1970 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Ylmaz Gney and erif Gren, featuring Gney as an illiterate horse cab driver, who, after losing one of his horses in an accident, sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure. The film, which wasnt released at the time because of a ban by Film Control Commission in Turkey, won awards at the 2nd Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, the 7th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and was screened at the 23rd Cannes Film Festival.

Umut has a reputation for being the archetype of the revolutionist cinema and neorealismo stream in Turkey. The film has been compared to films of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini. A lot of foreign, as well as national, cinema critics wrote about Gneys Umut in comparison to Ladri di Bicyclette by De Sica and Zavattini, an Italian production shot in 1948, which captured the Oscar prize in 1950 and is an important example of the Italian neorealismo stream.The protagonist of the film is Cabbar performed by Gney. Cabbar is directed to support his crowded kurdish family five children, a wife, and a grandmother with the earnings from an old phaeton with two exhausted, halfdead horses. The family tries to survive in a damp and dingy livingquarters. Cabbar does not have a good run of business. He is indebted almost to everyone. His single hope is in the lottery tickets, which he continuously buys. He has bound his hope to these pieces of paper. ........

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