Blackout Night (1990)

8.5/10 85 min Drama

Overview

In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished.

Cast

Tarık Akan

Mustafa Ural

Bülent Bilgiç

Asteğmen İlhan Paytak

Nurseli İdiz

Şükran Ural

Menderes Samancılar

Burhan Morkaya

Gökhan Mete

Nevzat

Erol Günaydın

Polis Basri

İsmail Hakkı Şen

Agop

Şükrü Türen

Nihat

Hikmet Karagöz

Kemal İnci

Kemal Bakırcı

Nevin Aypar

Nihat'ın halası

Gülsen Tuncer

Necati Bilgiç

Polis

Yaman Tüzcet

Deniz Kurdoğlu

Ayşe Erbulak

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