Oh, That's Fine! (Oh Olsun)

Oh, That's Fine! (Oh Olsun) (translated)

Movie · 1973 · 16 people

Oh Olsun is one of the Yeşilçam family comedies of the 1970s. Directed by Ertem Eğilmez, it is a 1973 production that reached cinemas on 1 January 1974. Sadık Şendil wrote the screenplay and Arzu Film made the picture. Shot in colour, this sentimental family comedy runs 89 minutes. It follows two families, one rich and one poor. Şendil's script reportedly won the best screenplay prize at the Golden Orange Film Festival that year.

Factory owner Fehmi Haznedar (Hulusi Kentmen) has three sons who look like model children until their lies come out one by one; as a punishment he puts them to work in his own factory. Tarık Akan plays the son Ferit, Kemal Sunal plays his brother Fazıl and Halit Akçatepe plays Ferdi. At the factory Ferit falls for Alev (Hale Soygazi), the daughter of the master worker Burhan (Münir Özkul), and the two are forced to marry in secret. Ferit's later engagement to someone else and Alev's departure from home change everything. Adile Naşit plays Ferit's mother, and Metin Akpınar appears as Doctor Metin.

Erdoğan Engin was the cinematographer. The film shares its name with a song whose words and music are by Oktay Yurdatapan, performed by Füsun Önal.

DirectorErtem Eğilmez
Production companyArzu Film
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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Oh Olsun is a fine example of Ertem Eğilmez's warm family comedies. Hulusi Kentmen's father, who puts his lying sons to work in his own factory, both amuses and teaches a lesson. Seeing Tarık Akan, Kemal Sunal and Halit Akçatepe as brothers is a treat of its own, while Münir Özkul and Adile Naşit feel like the film's conscience. The meeting of a rich and a poor family carries Yeşilçam's familiar but heartfelt moral sense. The title song in Füsun Önal's voice stays with you along with the story. Even today it brings a smile to your face.

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

Three brothers forced to work in a factory once their lies come out makes a nice story for teaching children about honesty. A comedy with Kemal Sunal and Halit Akçatepe gets every age laughing. There is a secret marriage and an engagement, but nothing heavy. Grandparents, parents and children can all watch it together comfortably. Just right for a holiday afternoon.

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

The film portrays class difference in early-1970s Turkey through a factory owner's family and a worker's family. Punishing the rich sons by making them labour in their father's factory is an interesting device that puts the world of work before upper-class eyes. Ferit falling for Alev, the daughter of the master worker Burhan, brings the meeting of the two worlds to a personal level. Yet the class question stays within Yeşilçam's usual frame: the conflict is treated less as a structural problem than as a matter of good-hearted and bad-hearted people. Still valuable for understanding how audiences of the time saw things.

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