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Sucker (Enayi)

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Movie · 1974 · 6 people

Enayi (Sucker) was written and directed by Feyzi Tuna in 1974 as a Turkish drama. A Turkish version of the Indian film Anari, it tells the love story of a poor painter and a rich young woman. Produced by Kadri Yurdatap under the Kadri Film and Güneş Film banners, the colour film runs 88 minutes and opened on 1 September 1974. The cinematographer is Kaya Ererez.

Metin (Kadir İnanır) is a young man who cannot stay in any job for long, and he finally begins painting and selling pictures to pay the rent he owes his landlord. One day he meets Filiz (Meral Zeren), a beautiful girl from a wealthy family. Knowing Metin's prejudice against the rich, she presents herself as a poor servant and invites him to her house, saying the woman she works for is looking for a painter. The two grow close. Metin also happens to meet Filiz's uncle Fethi and starts working at his company. Filiz does all she can to keep her game from being exposed, but when Fethi learns the truth he tries to separate them.

Kadir İnanır and Meral Zeren share the lead roles, with Şükriye Atav (Şaziye Ana), Nilgün Atılgan (Sevim), Kamran Usluer (Nevzat), Erol Keskin and Hüseyin Kutman in the cast.

DirectorFeyzi Tuna
Production companyKadri Film, Güneş Film

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Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır Film actor · died at 77 Metin Meral Zeren Meral Zeren Actor · 70 years old Filiz Nilgün Atılgan Kamran Usluer Kamran Usluer Actor · died at 67 Fethi Ekrem Dümer Ekrem Dümer Actor · died at 71 Prosecutor Erol Keskin Erol Keskin Footballer · died at 89

Also in the cast: Şükriye Atav, Hüseyin Kutman

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Starring Kadir İnanır and Meral Zeren, Enayi retells one of the fables closest to Yeşilçam's heart: the love of a poor painter and a rich girl. Filiz presenting herself as a servant is a sweet game that tests a proud young man prejudiced against the rich. In stories like this, a good-hearted hero running up against the wall of class reminds us once again that love cannot be measured in money. At 88 minutes it tells its story warmly and without dragging it out.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Enayi's defining trait is that it is an adaptation: a Turkish version of the Indian film Anari. Yeşilçam's practice of localising foreign stories works here too, but the price is limited originality. The central conflict, the risk that the rich girl's concealed identity will be exposed, is clear from the first act, and the narrative makes little effort to upset that expectation. Written and directed by Feyzi Tuna, the film does manage to keep its rhythm tight over 88 minutes. In the end it is a melodrama neatly crafted within the limits of its formula, with no ambition to go beyond it.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film takes an interesting angle on the rich-versus-poor theme so common in 1970s Yeşilçam: this time the prejudice belongs to the poor hero. Metin's distrust of the rich is what drives Filiz to hide who she is, so class difference is not only an obstacle imposed from outside but something that lives in the characters' own minds. A young man who cannot hold down any job, paying his rent by selling paintings and finally landing work at a company, is a small but realistic detail about how urban young people of the time scraped a living. And once the uncle steps in, family authority becomes the guardian of the class line.

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