Blackout Night (1990)
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished.
Director:
Yusuf Kurçenli
Writer:
Yusuf Kurçenli
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Tarık Akan as Mustafa Ural |
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Bülent Bilgiç as Asteğmen İlhan Paytak |
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Nurseli İdiz as Şükran Ural |
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Menderes Samancılar as Burhan Morkaya |
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Gökhan Mete as Nevzat |
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Erol Günaydın as Polis Basri |
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İsmail Hakkı Şen as Agop |
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Şükrü Türen as Nihat |
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Hikmet Karagöz as |
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Kemal İnci as Kemal Bakırcı |
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Nevin Aypar as Nihat'ın halası |
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Gülsen Tuncer as |
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Necati Bilgiç as Polis |
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Ömer Çolakoğlu as Cengiz |
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Yaman Tüzcet as |
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Cengiz Korucu as |
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Yılmaz Uyar as |
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Deniz Kurdoğlu as |
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Ayşe Erbulak as |
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Oktay Güzeloğlu as |
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Erol Şen as |
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Eda Havi as |
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Ali Çoban as |
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Mustafa Alabora as Mustafa Ural (voice) |
| Writing | Yusuf Kurçenli | Screenplay |
| Directing | Yusuf Kurçenli | Director |
| Writing | Rıfat Ilgaz | Novel |