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When Luck Breaks the Door

2005 film


When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assassination plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on January 28, 2005 (2005-01-28), was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.[1]

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Plot

When Kuddusi Yurdum misses the final answer on the TV gameshow "Şans Kapıyı Kırınca", his family is given a consolation prize: a vacation to Barboonia, a fictional "banana republic" island country near Cuba. They are welcomed there by the country's dictator President Carlos, in order to stop an assassination plot by the CIA.

Cast

  • Ferhan Şensoy as Kuddusi / Presidente Carlos (Carlos Romário Mustafa Ibrahim Salvador del Puento González Salgado)
  • Asuman Dabak as Nermin (Kuddusi's wife)
  • Zeki Alasya as Father Alfonso
  • İlkay Saran as Lezize (Kuddusi's mother-in-law, Nermin's mother)
  • Rasim Öztekin as José Ricardo
  • Necmi Yapıcı as Ercan (Kuddusi's brother-in-law, Nermin's brother)
  • Fethi Kantarcı as Yaman (Kuddusi's son)
  • Alev Gezer as Ebru (Kuddusi's daughter)
  • Ayça Tekindor as Princess Maria
  • Sinan Çetin as Hotel Bonita Cocierge
  • Doğa Rutkay as Air Hostess
  • Tamer Karadağlı as the Pilot
  • Memet Ali Alabora as Flight Passenger 1
  • İpek Tuzcuoğlu as Flight Passenger 2
  • Hakan Yılmaz as Presenter (of the TV gameshow)

References

  1. ""Şans Kapıyı Kırınca" Türkler'in Küba istilası". sinematurk.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.



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