Bekçi

Bekçi is a 1985 Turkish film adapted from Orhan Kemal's novel Murtaza. It was directed by Ali Özgentürk from a screenplay by Işıl Özgentürk, with cinematography by Ertunç Şenkay. Murtaza, grandson of the Balkan War veteran Kolağası Hasan Bey, works as a watchman at a factory. His blind devotion to duty hardens into a despotic pressure: the merciless zeal with which he cows the workers turns him into an object of ridicule and cuts him off entirely from those around him. Müjdat Gezen plays Murtaza, alongside Güler Ökten, Halil Ergün and Macit Koper. The film was the first Turkish production shown in the competition section of the Venice Film Festival.