For Love and Honor
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For Love and Honor is a 2007 Turkish drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

, written by Yavuz Turgul
Yavuz Turgul
Yavuz Turgul is a Turkish film director and screenwriter, who is best known for his box-office hit The Bandit and who has won the Golden Orange for Best Screenplay four times for Abbas in Flower , The Agha , Mr. Muhsin and The Shadow Play ; Golden Oranges for Best Film for Mr...

 and directed by Ömer Vargı, starring Şener Şen as a retired gangster who learns that he has a son in need of protection. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , was the highest-grossing Turkish film of 2007
Turkish films of 2007
A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2007.- Highest-grossing films :- References :...

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Plot

Ali Osman is a retired Kabadayı (old school gangster) who learns that he has a son Murat. Murat works in a bar and his girlfriend Karaca also works there as a singer. Murat has a run-in with a Mob Boss Devran who tries to shut down the place. From that moment on, Devran swears to avenge Murat and Karaca and it is up to Ali Osman to protect them.

Main cast

  • Şener Şen
    Sener Sen
    Şener Şen is a Turkish film and theatre actor, who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in Mr...

     (Ali Osman)
  • Kenan İmirzalıoğlu
    Kenan İmirzalıoğlu
    -Biography:Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was born as the youngest of three children to Mustafa and Yıldız İmirzalıoğlu in the village of Üçem in Balâ, Ankara Province. At age 12, he moved to the city of Ankara for his middle studies. He graduated in Mathematics from Yıldız Technical University...

     (Devran)
  • İsmail Hacıoğlu
    İsmail Hacıoğlu
    -Selected filmography:-External links:...

     (Murat)
  • Aslı Tandoğan
    Aslı Tandoğan
    Aslı Tandoğan is a Turkish actress best known for starring as one of the main characters, Lamia, in the Turkish television series, Dudaktan Kalbe . She also co-starred in the movie Kabadayı as Karaca. Tandoğan graduated from Hacettepe University Music Conservatory.- External links :*...

     (Karaca)
  • Rasim Öztekin (Sürmeli)
  • Ruhi Sarı (Selim)
  • Süleyman Turan (Cemil)
  • Ulgar Manzakoğlu (Boss)
  • Tarık Ünlüoğlu (Gölge)
  • Rana Cabbar (Former gangster)
  • Ferdi Akarnur (Former commissioner)
  • Attila Pekdemir (Former gangster)
  • Kemal İnci (Former gangster)

Reception

It was watched by 920,000 in the first 10 days of its release and by over 2 million people in Turkey at the end its theatrical run.

External links

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