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Two Acrobats (İki Cambaz)

Two Acrobats (İki Cambaz) (translated)

Movie · 1979 · 16 people

The 1979 Turkish adventure comedy İki Cambaz (Two Acrobats) was directed by Natuk Baytan. It follows two friends who make their living as con men in broad slapstick style, mixing absurd humour, brawls, mobsters and swindlers. Cüneyt Arkın and Erol Taş share the leads. Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the screenplay and Berker İnanoğlu produced for Sezer Film. Orhan Kapkı shot the 82-minute colour film.

The heroes are Tayfun and Boğa Kamil, who swindle Abbas and his associate Tahir out of ten thousand liras and go on the run. Tayfun hides the money for his retirement and, despite Kamil's pestering, will not say where. The henchmen of Abbas and Tahir chase them, but the pair slip away each time. Their luck turns when Tayfun loses his memory in an accident: everyone who wants the money now has to nurse him back to health. Cüneyt Arkın plays Tayfun and Cemil, and Erol Taş plays Boğa Kamil.

The cast includes Nejat Özbek (Serdar), Merih Ergürbüz (Matmazel Tina), Ali Şen (Abbas), Turgut Özatay (Tahir) and Yadigar Ejder (Selim), with Şeref Çokşeker as Tayfun's wife and Remziye Fırtına as her mother. The actors' voices were dubbed afterwards: Esen Günay voices Cüneyt Arkın and Sait Ergenç voices Erol Taş.

DirectorNatuk Baytan
Production companySezer Film

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Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Tayfun / Cemil Erol Taş Erol Taş Actor · died at 72 Boğa Kamil Merih Ergürbüz Ali Şen Ali Şen Actor · died at 70 Abbas Nejat Özbek Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Tahir Yadigar Ejder Actor · died at 43 Selim Şeref Çokşeker Remziye Fırtına Nejat Gürçen Necip Tekçe Hakkı Kıvanç Hakkı Kıvanç Actor · died at 83 Süheyl Eğriboz Süheyl Eğriboz Actor · died at 86 Giray Alpan Celal Yonat Celal Yonat Actor · 1922 – 1993 Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Actor · died at 95

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

For anyone raised on the familiar voices of Yeşilçam, the first thing to catch the ear here is the dubbing: Esen Günay voices Cüneyt Arkın and Sait Ergenç voices Erol Taş, voices that are an inseparable part of the cinema of that era. Seeing Arkın as a crafty swindler who loses his memory has its own flavour too. By my measure, though, the slapstick style is too noisy; the fights and absurd gags overshadow whatever warmth the story has. Anyone looking for the sincerity of a classic Yeşilçam comedy will find more of a laugh machine here.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Henchmen on their tail, a stash of hidden money and two swindlers who slip away every time: the chase framework is solid. There are plenty of fights and the film keeps the pace up. The amnesia twist flips the game and resets the stakes. Just don't expect real suspense, because the comedy dominates; here every threat ends in a joke.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

It is an absurd, slapstick comedy, and the grandparents may enjoy seeing Cüneyt Arkın and Erol Taş in this light. The fights are played for laughs, but the film is full of punches, which is worth knowing with young children. That the heroes are swindlers is also something you can talk about with the kids. For school-age children and teenagers it makes an easy weekend film.

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