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Harbi Define

Real Treasure (Harbi Define) (translated)

Movie · 2010 · 6 people

Hakkı Görgülü directed Harbi Define (“Real Treasure”), a Turkish comedy-adventure released on 1 October 2010. Görgülü shares the screenplay credit with lead actor Cengiz Küçükayvaz. Barkod Production made it, Cinefilm distributed it, and Melih Oğuzhan, who also acts, composed the music. Running times quoted range from 112 to 120 minutes. Critics and audiences alike scored it low.

The story begins with a secret from the 1960s. A party of American explorers comes to a village near Uşak, reaches the Karun (Croesus) treasure and smuggles out its most precious piece, a winged sea-horse brooch. Years later the dying Tahir (Halil Kumova) tells his four sons, who have no inheritance coming, about that visit: the rest of the treasure lies buried beneath their house in the village of Şıhhasan. The brothers first argue, then consult a fortune-teller, Cingöz Falcı, and are swept up in dreams of wealth. Ramazan (Önder Açıkbaş), Cemil (Cengiz Küçükayvaz), Kenan (Cüneyt Arda Pamuk), Ender (Melih Oğuzhan) and the Hoca (Kemal Kuruçay) set out for Uşak. Comic mishaps follow on the road, and in the village the brothers hunt for the treasure while discovering themselves, changed by the purity of village life.

The cast also includes Haldun Boysan, Sinan Bengier, Selçuk Uluergüven as the headman and Ali Yaylı as the village madman.

DirectorHakkı Görgülü
Production companyBarkod Production

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Cengiz Küçükayvaz Cengiz Küçükayvaz Actor · 58 years old Sinan Bengier Haldun Boysan Haldun Boysan Actor · died at 62 Önder Açıkbaş Kemal Kuruçay Züleyha Karyağdı

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

A treasure hunt, a road trip, brothers bickering... On paper it looks like a comedy for the whole family, and it carries a warm message about village life. But critics and audiences alike rated it low, and that is worth knowing before you sit down. To judge whether the humour suits younger viewers, an adult should take a look first. For anyone keeping expectations modest, it is a light weekend film.

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

A lost treasure, a brooch smuggled out of the country, a fortune buried under a house... There was a tense adventure in this material. The film instead turns the hunt into a string of comic road mishaps and a theme of finding yourself in the village. So the adventure label promises a bit much; if you want pace and real stakes, there is not much here. It works better for anyone after a light comedy.

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

The most interesting thing about the film is that it approaches the idea of treasure from two directions. On one side is a past in which foreigners come to an Anatolian village and take its most precious piece out of the country; on the other, brothers who chase a dream of easy wealth all the way to a fortune-teller. The loss of cultural heritage and the urge to get rich quick meet in a single story. Yet village life is drawn as a pure, unspoiled world that changes the brothers, a view that leans on a familiar romanticism, showing the countryside through a city dweller's longing rather than through its own real problems.

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