
FILM · 2001 · TURKEY
Komser Şekspir
- Directed by
- Sinan Çetin
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Studio
- Plato Film Production
8 archived facts 1 topic 2 sources Last reviewed Sep 2026
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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All facts (8)
- #001
Komser Şekspir is a Turkish comedy-drama film directed by Sinan Çetin and shot in 2000.
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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.
- #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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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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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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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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