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Deprem

Earthquake (Deprem) (translated)

Movie · 1976 · 3 people

Combining drama, thriller, romance and adventure, Deprem ("Earthquake") stars Türkân Şoray and Kadir İnanır in a Turkish film that Şerif Gören directed in 1976. Safa Önal wrote the screenplay and Akün Film produced it, with Hasan Gürkan and İrfan Ünal as producers. The film runs 88 minutes.

At its centre is Ahmet. After his father's death he returns to his native village years later, eager to sell off the inheritance quickly and get rich. During his stay he meets Zeynep and falls in love with her. She likes him too but cannot trust him, and, thinking she has reached marrying age, decides to wed the village blacksmith Rıza. Ahmet kidnaps Zeynep to stop the wedding, and Rıza Usta sets off after the pair to take revenge. At the end of the road an unexpected catastrophe awaits all three. Türkân Şoray plays Zeynep and Kadir İnanır plays Ahmet; Rıza Usta is played by the Iranian actor Naser Malek Motiee, known in Turkey as Nasır Melek. Şükriye Atav appears as Zeynep's mother and İhsan Yüce as the coachman.

The music is by Cahit Berkay, the cinematography by Erdoğan Engin, the editing by Süleyman Karakaya and the art direction by Erdil Demirbağ.

DirectorŞerif Gören
Production companyAkün Film

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Türkân Şoray Türkân Şoray Actor · 81 years old Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır Film actor · died at 77 Nasır Melek Nasır Melek Actor · died at 88

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Deprem tells the tension between going home and looking at home through city eyes by way of a love triangle. Ahmet comes back to the village not to keep his land but to sell the inheritance and get rich, a stance that captures well how someone uprooted grows estranged from the place he was born. Zeynep turning to the blacksmith Rıza because she thinks she has reached marrying age shows how narrow the frame of a woman's choices was. The kidnapping is the story's turning point, and today's viewers may keep their distance from its use as part of a love story. Even so, Şerif Gören's view of village life offers an interesting snapshot of the mid-1970s.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Seeing Türkân Şoray and Kadir İnanır in the same film was an invitation in itself for audiences of those years. In this village story from Safa Önal's pen, love, pride and mistrust intertwine; the kidnapping-and-revenge pattern is familiar, but the presence of these actors gives it warmth. Watching Nasır Melek as Rıza Usta is a curiosity of its own. Cahit Berkay's music together with Erdoğan Engin's images carries you easily back to the mood of the old village films. The title does not tell you everything, but knowing a catastrophe is coming lends the story a sorrowful weight.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

A kidnapping, a blacksmith on the trail for revenge and a catastrophe waiting at the end of the road: on paper, a proper thriller setup. At 88 minutes it is tight, too. The catch is that the story first builds up the village, the inheritance and the romance, so drama dominates until the chase begins, and anyone like me who wants movement may need some patience. The stretch where Rıza Usta goes after the pair is the film's real promise.

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