Cow Shaban (İnek Şaban) (translated)

Can Film's Yeşilçam comedy İnek Şaban (literally Cow Shaban) was shot in 1978 under director Osman F. Seden and opened in cinemas on 1 February 1979. Seden wrote the script with Berrin Giz, and Kemal Sunal and Fatma Girik produced. A family comedy, it combines football with a favourite device of Turkish comedy, two men who look alike. It was shot in colour on 35 mm and runs 86 minutes.

Kemal Sunal plays two parts: Şaban, a naive watermelon seller in a shantytown, and the famous goalkeeper Bülent. When a club's keeper flees to America, its officials find Şaban, who looks exactly like him. Dreaming of going to Germany to raise the bride price, Şaban suddenly finds himself between the posts, quickly becomes a celebrated player and sees his life change. The film's world is not only the stadium; figures such as Kara Mithat, Arap Nuri and Jilet Rıza, and their henchmen, also get mixed up in the story.

The cast includes Defne Yalnız (Zeliha), Saadet Gürses (Ayşe), Yavuz Karakaş (Arap Nuri), Dinçer Çekmez (Kara Mithat), Süheyl Eğriboz (Jilet Rıza), Ali Şen (Bekir Efendi) and Orhan Elmas as the manager Kayhan. Macit Flordun appears as the coach and Seden himself as the club president. Cahit Engin was the cinematographer.