Crab Play (2009)
Yengeç Oyunu (Crab Play) tells the story of women from a small city, trying to survive. Asya (Ayça İnci) who is a History assistant professor at Istanbul University moves to a town taking her 5-year old daughter İpek, hoping to build a new life. in a little while Asya finds a job at the University and finds herself in an unusual project along her students. A project that will change their life. While investigating old Ottoman documents, they discover a murder case which grabs their attention. At the time seen as an honor killing the suspect has been acquitted. While Asya and her students investigate and find various aspects of this murder, they fight with their own demons as well as those of Turkish society.
Director: Ali Özgentürk
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Ayça İnci as Asya |
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Ayşe Kökçü as Emine |
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Elif Melda Yılmaz as Nuriye |
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Ensar Kılıç as Enver Bey |
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Özcan Varaylı as Yengeç İdris |
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Sevgi Onat as Sadiye |
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Burcu Tutkun Oruç as Tülay |
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Pelin Acar as Songül |
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Devrim Özder Akın as Hasan |
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Elif Yıldız as Zeynep |
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Berkay Akın as Yengeç Salih |
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Abdulkadir Tulun as Abdullah |
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Tolga İskit as Orkun |
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Gizem Kaçar as İpek |
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Levent Çimen as Dursun |
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Zeynep Mataracı as Esra |
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Çiğdem Altug as Gülcem |
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Simten Demirkol as Nesrin |
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Hakan Atalay as Hakan |
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Berk Kırlak as Kemal |
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Safak Ersözlü as Gündağ |
| Editing | Aylin Zoi Tinel | Editor |
| Production | László Kántor | Co-Producer |
| Production | Ali Özgentürk | Producer |
| Art | Burhan Türk | Art Direction |
| Directing | Ali Özgentürk | Director |
| Writing | Gülsüm Öz | Co-Writer |
| Writing | Ali Özgentürk | Writer |
| Camera | Márton Miklauzic | Director of Photography |