Tatar Ramazan in Exile (Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde) (translated)

Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde ("Tatar Ramazan in Exile"), a Turkish prison film from 1992, forms the second and final entry in the Tatar Ramazan series. Melih Gülgen directed and produced it under the Gülgen Film banner. Mixing drama, epic and period elements, it follows a tough, principled hero fighting injustice inside prison walls. Sources give its running time as anywhere from 80 to 95 minutes.

The story takes place in 1942, while the Second World War rages, and opens with headlines from the newspaper Cumhuriyet. Tatar Ramazan, whose reputation has reached the jail before him, is sent into exile at Adana Closed Prison. There, Abdurrahman Çavuş, who has run a feudal order for years, and his right-hand man Akseli fear that their racket is about to end, while the oppressed inmates see Ramazan as a savior. Kadir İnanır plays Tatar Ramazan, Hayati Hamzaoğlu is Abdurrahman Çavuş and Esin Moralıoğlu is Zeynep; Yıldırım Gencer, Kâzım Kartal, Turgut Bağır, Yaşar Kutbay and Yusuf Çağatay are also in the cast.

The screenplay is credited to Safa Önal and draws on a work by Kerim Korcan. Salih Dikişçi was the cinematographer and Ahmet Kaya provided the music. A closing title reads, in Turkish, that his name was spoken in seven hundred towns, seventy provinces and seven great powers.