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Rush to Interest Rates (Faize Hücum)

Rush to Interest Rates (Faize Hücum) (translated)

Movie · 1982 · 12 people

Zeki Ökten directed the 1982 Turkish film Faize Hücum ("Rush to Interest"). Shot in colour on 35 mm, it runs 102 minutes and was made by Belge Film. Its story grows out of the bankers' crisis of the time. Told with a social-realist eye and streaks of satire, it was reportedly censored when first shown on television, won a number of awards, and is one of the films discussed in Agah Özgüç's book 100 Filmde Türk Sineması.

At its centre is Kamil Bey, a retired civil servant with thirty years of service and twenty-two commendations, played by the stage-trained Genco Erkal, whose performance long kept the film in critics' favour. Kamil first puts his bonus and three months' salary, then his late father's house, into the mushrooming "bankers". Seized like everyone by the urge to win quickly, he meets the bitter end of the twisted banker economy: he is one of the victims who never see their interest.

Fehmi Yaşar wrote the screenplay. Music is by Cem İdiz and photography by Hüseyin Özşahin. Alongside Genco Erkal the cast includes Ahmet Sezerel (Murat), Asuman Arsan (Saniye) and Levent Dönmez (Banker Kazım Anadol).

DirectorZeki Ökten
Production companyBelge Film

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Cast

Genco Erkal Genco Erkal Actor · died at 86 Kâmil Asuman Arsan Ayşe Selen Ahmet Sezerel Burçin Öztunç Barış Altay Suna Selen Actor · 87 years old Bülent Kayabaş Bülent Kayabaş Actor · died at 71 Hüseyin Kutman Güler Ökten Güler Ökten Film actor · 84 years old Güzin Özyağcılar Hikmet Karagöz Actor · died at 73 Doorman Cemal

Also in the cast: Turgut Savaş, Levent Dönmez

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

Faize Hücum is a valuable social document because it brought the bankers' crisis of its own years to the screen while it was still raw. Drawing the hero as a model civil servant, with thirty years of service and twenty-two commendations, is a deliberate choice: it says that those swept up by the urge for quick gains are not only the greedy or the naive, and that the system can drag in even its most honest citizen. The film builds this in a social-realist idiom with touches of satire, tying one man's ruin to the economic morality of an era. That it was reportedly censored when first shown on television suggests how sensitive the subject still was at the time.

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

This film by Zeki Ökten belongs to the vein of Turkish cinema that knows how to make you think while you laugh. Aiming its humour at human weakness rather than at a crude guffaw sets it apart. The film rests on the shoulders of stage-trained Genco Erkal's Kamil Bey; his performance is a large part of why critics spoke well of the film for so long. Its place in Agah Özgüç's book 100 Filmde Türk Sineması is no surprise either. For an eye raised on the classics, what there is to love here is a story that never loses its moral centre, and a telling that does not hide a bitter outcome yet looks at its hero with tenderness.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A film that makes you laugh and think about what the hunger for easy money can cost a family. It is a good chance to watch with older children and teenagers and talk about saving, debt and get-rich-quick promises. But the story ends up somewhere bitter, and political satire and money talk are far from what young children can follow, so they may get bored; grandparents who remember those years may watch with real interest.

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