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Fire! (Yangın Var)

Fire! (Yangın Var) (translated)

Movie · 2011 · 6 people

Released on December 9, 2011, the Turkish film Yangın Var (Fire!) sets comedy and political undertones inside a road story. Murat Saraçoğlu is the credited director, with Mehmet Gezen also credited as a director. The 98-minute picture links Diyarbakır and the Black Sea coast through the cab of a fire truck, with love, an imam and a fire brigade all in the mix.

The story begins when Diyarbakır donates a fire truck to Çayırbağı, a small town in the Trabzon area. Koşman, the firefighter sent to bring it home, finds himself in Diyarbakır on a summer day, a place he did not want to visit. On the way back he has a mysterious traveling companion, a road of a thousand kilometers ahead and an unusual adventure in store. Osman Sonant plays Koşman and Nesrin Cavadzade plays Asya. Yavuz Bingöl, Şerif Sezer and Erkan Can round out the cast, and Reha Özcan appears as the Rize police chief. The journey, full of romance, sorrow and laughter, will change both their lives.

Murat Batgi and Koray Çalışkan wrote the screenplay, and Koray Çalışkan produced. Gökhan Atılmış was the cinematographer, with music credited to Levent Güneş, Işın Kucur and Erol Mutlu. Bredok Film Production, Bulut Film and Yol Yapım were co-producers, and UIP distributed the film.

DirectorMurat Saraçoğlu
Production companyBredok Film Production, Bulut Film, Yol Yapım
Fire! (Yangın Var) Fire! (Yangın Var)

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Also in the cast: Ebru Ojen Şahin, Mehmet Gezen, Metin Yıldız (Muharrem)

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

A fire truck, a thousand-kilometre road and an adventure stretching from Diyarbakır to the Black Sea: a story that should catch children's interest. Love, sorrow and laughter all come together. The film does carry political undertones, though; little ones may not follow them, while the grown-ups might talk them over. Its length suits a family evening, too. A nice choice especially for families with teenagers.

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

Yangın Var connects Diyarbakır with a small town near Trabzon by way of a fire truck, and that simple idea measures the distance between two regions in more than kilometers. Diyarbakır gifting a truck to Çayırbağı symbolically puts solidarity between regions in the foreground. Koşman's reluctance to go to Diyarbakır at all hints that the journey could turn into a test of prejudice. Mixing comedy with political undertones is a risky balance; humor can sometimes lighten heavy subjects too much. A story that gathers an imam, a fire brigade and a romance into one trip stands out for trying to fit the country's different faces into a single cab.

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

I have always loved road stories; films in which people get to know one another on the road and come out changed were a pattern old Yeşilçam held dear too. Yangın Var carries that tradition into the cab of a fire truck. It is a pleasure to see names like Yavuz Bingöl, Şerif Sezer and Erkan Can together. It is a warm-hearted journey that promises love, sorrow and laughter together; only blending comedy with political undertones does risk drifting a little from the pure warmth of those old films.

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