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Homoti

Homoti

Movie · 1987 · 3 people

Müjdat Gezen wrote, directed and produced the 1987 Turkish film Homoti and also plays the lead in it. Mixing comedy, science fiction and adventure, it follows the earthly adventures of a visitor from space. Remembered as a low-budget project made among friends, it has become a cult favourite over time.

The hero, Ali, is a journalist who struggles to find news. The stories he invents never satisfy his boss. Desperate, he takes pot lids to a deserted spot and starts shooting fake UFO photographs. Just then a real alien appears: Homoti, who dislikes war and is peaceful and gay. Ali wants to turn the encounter into the story of his career, and to do so he hides his guest from everyone, but his work and private life soon become tangled. Besides Gezen, the film features Perran Kutman, Savaş Dinçel, Demet Akbağ, Bahar Öztan and Altan Erbulak; Öztan plays Ayşegül, Dinçel plays Haydar and Akbağ plays Zeynep Erez.

Aziz Dikdik edited the colour film and Oğuz Ali Bilen operated the camera. Ömer Ekmekçi was head of lighting and Ramazan Denizhan production manager.

DirectorMüjdat Gezen

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Müjdat Gezen Müjdat Gezen Actor · 83 years old Perran Kutman Actor · 76 years old Savaş Dinçel Savaş Dinçel Actor · died at 65

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

Seeing Müjdat Gezen, Perran Kutman, Altan Erbulak and Demet Akbağ in one film is a sweet reunion for anyone who misses the comic generation of the eighties. Homoti makes no secret of its low budget, and you can feel it was made among friends; there is something sincere in that. The idea of a peaceful alien who dislikes war has a well-meaning heart, too. Yet some of the humour now strikes me as too loud, and I found little of the elegance of the fine old comedies here. I understand its cult status, but for me it does not take the place of the classics.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Written, directed and produced by Gezen, who also takes the lead, Homoti feels less like a one-man auteur statement than a game played among friends. Its blend of comedy, science fiction and adventure rests on a clever idea: a journalist who cannot find news, faking UFO photos with pot lids, comes face to face with a real alien, a premise with real potential for satire about the media manufacturing reality. But the script never shapes that potential into a coherent structure; it moves more like a string of sketches. The low budget shows plainly on screen. Still, a character idea that was bold for its time and the energy of the cast explain why it became a cult film.

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

Homoti brings two striking subjects into comedy for the Turkey of 1987: a press world that bends the truth for a story, and an alien who dislikes war and is peaceful and gay. Ali inventing stories to please his boss is a light but well-aimed jab at journalism produced under pressure. Homoti's difference, meanwhile, makes an identity visible through an alien's innocent gaze, in a way that could be called bold for those years. Some of the jokes may have aged; but the film's cult status suggests that what it says about the people society treats as the other is still worth talking about.

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