FILM · 2001 · TURKEY

Komser Şekspir

Directed by

Sinan Çetin

Runtime

113 min

Studio

Plato Film Production

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After fainting in a school rehearsal, little Su is diagnosed with leukemia. As a result she is forced to give up the Snow White role she wanted so badly. Police Chief Cemil decides to stage the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his oppressive police station. He hopes to win a TV competition in order to save his dying daughter.

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1. #001

   Komser Şekspir is a Turkish comedy-drama film directed by Sinan Çetin and shot in 2000.

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2. #002

   The screenplay was written by Mesut Ceylan, who also plays the character of the glue sniffer in the film.

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   The production company is Plato Film Production, and the film was released on 16 February 2001.

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4. #004

   Kadir İnanır plays Commissioner Cemil, and Pelin Batu plays his daughter Su.

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   To fulfill the theatrical passion of his daughter, who is ill with leukemia, Commissioner Cemil turns his police station into a theater studio and tries to stage the play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the detainees in custody; he has a 'Patriot Shakespeare' monument erected in the station's garden and pulls a gun on a prosecutor for the competition he wants to enter his daughter in.

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6. #006

   Shortly before the play is to be staged, the character in the role of the Queen is shot, so Commissioner Cemil takes her place and plays the Queen.

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7. #007

   In the cast, Okan Bayülgen plays a drug dealer who was once a Yeşilçam child star, and Özkan Uğur plays a mafia boss.

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8. #008

   Müjde Ar was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 34th Cinema Writers Association Awards in 2001 for her role as a prostitute.

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