When Luck Breaks the Door
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 , 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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Directed by | Tayfun Güneyer |
Written by | Tayfun Güneyer |
Produced by | Vural Öger |
Starring | Ferhan Şensoy Asuman Dabak Zeki Alasya Rasim Öztekin |
Cinematography | Veli Kuzlu |
Music by | Patrick Chartol Jean-Michel Vallet Claire Michael |
Distributed by | WB |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Countries | Turkey, Cuba |
Languages | Turkish, Spanish |
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
- ""Şans Kapıyı Kırınca" Türkler'in Küba istilası". sinematurk.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.