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Revenge of the Flame (İntikam Alevi)

Revenge of the Flame (İntikam Alevi)

Movie · 1956 · 5 people

Osman F. Seden wrote, produced and directed İntikam Alevi ("Revenge of the Flame") for Kemal Film, a black-and-white Yeşilçam drama released on 14 November 1956 with photography by Kriton İlyadis. Ayhan Işık plays the truck driver Ekrem, with Deniz Tanyeli, Kenan Pars, Mualla Kaynak, Turgut Özatay and Nubar Terziyan. It runs about 120 minutes and was remade in 1969 as Kan Su Gibi Akacak (1969).

Ekrem drives a truck for the Cankurtaran transport company and is about to be engaged to Necla. Suzan is infatuated with him, and Hikmet (Kenan Pars) from the same company with her. In a trap set by Suzan's mother Huriye, Ekrem's hard-drinking brother drugs his glass at the engagement party; caught next morning in a room with Suzan, Ekrem must choose between marriage and prison, and takes the marriage. Later Hikmet and Hüseyin (Özatay), in gambling debt, steal the company's money and kill its owner, then blame Ekrem. Sentenced to twenty years, he escapes from prison.

With the roads between Çorum and Istanbul sealed, Ekrem reaches Istanbul exhausted and shelters in the hut of his fisherman friend Ali in Kumkapı. With Necla, Ali and homicide detective Fehmi Kıpçak, Ekrem tries to clear his name.

DirectorOsman Fahir Seden
Production companyKemal Film

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Cast

Ayhan Işık Film actor · died at 50 Ekrem Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Hüseyin Gökmen Nubar Terziyan Actor · died at 84 Usta Muammer Gözalan Muammer Gözalan Actor · died at 76 Kenan Pars Kenan Pars Actor · died at 88 Hikmet

Also in the cast: Deniz Tanyeli, Mualla Kaynak

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

Ayhan Işık's truck driver Ekrem is one of the purest examples of Yeşilçam's wronged honest-man hero. Osman F. Seden both wrote and directed it, and the trap, the stolen money, the prison break and the struggle to clear his name carry every vein of the old melodrama we loved. Kriton İlyadis's black-and-white photography adds a poetry of its own. Today the set-up of the trap may look a little too reliant on coincidence, and the near two-hour running time drags in places. But this moral world, where loyalty and friendship win out, is enough to warm the heart.

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

A trap, a murder, twenty years in prison, a jailbreak and an escape with the roads sealed off: for 1956 the plot moves a lot. Ekrem's push to reach Istanbul while being hunted is the likely high point for tension. But at around 120 minutes the film spends too long on the engagement and forced-marriage drama, and the opening may feel heavy if you want pace. Stick with it and it pays off.

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

The film centres on the life of a working man, a truck driver, in 1950s Istanbul, which is notable in itself for the cinema of the period. The transport company, the neighbourhood, the engagement, the gambling debts and the fisherman's hut in Kumkapı reflect the city's working- and middle-class fabric. Ekrem being forced to choose between marriage and prison shows how decisive notions of honour and reputation were in those years. And the fact that his search for justice runs not only through official channels but on the solidarity of the fisherman Ali and his fiancée Necla, with help from a detective, offers an interesting mix of trust in the state and in community.

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