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Blood Money (Kanlı Para)

Blood Money (Kanlı Para) (translated)

Movie · 1972 · 10 people

Natuk Baytan directed the Turkish adventure film Kanlı Para (Blood Money) in 1972. Fuat Özlüer and Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the screenplay, and Türker İnanoğlu produced it. A colour film under the Erler Film banner, it runs 74 minutes and opened on 1 April 1972. Its story is adapted from the internationally known Once a Thief.

The story is about a former robber, Murat (Kadir İnanır), who gets drawn back into crime. He robs a factory with the gang led by Bekir (Turgut Özatay) and, though caught afterwards, is freed for lack of evidence. That same night his wife Zeynep (Meral Zeren) gave birth to a daughter, whom they named Ayşe. Murat tells Bekir he has given up dirty work and starts as a driver at a factory. But Bekir's new target is the very factory where Murat works, and he is ready to play various tricks to pull Murat into the job.

The cast includes Ekrem Bora as Doğan, Orhan Elmas as his right hand, Necdet Tosun as a witness and Ekrem Dümer as the lawyer; Natuk Baytan plays Murat's boss. Çetin Gürtop was the cinematographer. Like many films of the period, it was dubbed by other voices, with Toron Karacaoğlu voicing Kadir İnanır.

DirectorNatuk Baytan
Production companyErler Film

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Ekrem Bora Ekrem Bora Actor · died at 80 Doğan Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır Film actor · died at 77 Murat Meral Zeren Meral Zeren Actor · 70 years old Zeynep Muammer Gözalan Muammer Gözalan Actor · died at 76 Manager Necdet Tosun Actor · died at 48 Eyewitness Orhan Elmas Orhan Elmas Film director · died at 75 Doğan's Right Hand Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Bekir Ekrem Dümer Ekrem Dümer Actor · died at 71 Lawyer Natuk Baytan Natuk Baytan Film director · died at 61 Murat's Boss Süheyl Eğriboz Süheyl Eğriboz Actor · died at 86 Bekir's Man

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

Seventy-four minutes, so no time wasted: a factory robbery, an arrest, release for lack of evidence, and then the old gang's schemes to drag Murat into a new job. The tug-of-war between Kadir İnanır's man trying to break with crime and Turgut Özatay's Bekir is strong enough to carry the tension. The one minus is the period dubbing; with the voices recorded apart from the actors, the clashes may lose a little punch for today's viewer.

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

Kanlı Para shows two habits of early-seventies Turkish cinema at once: adapting a foreign story, here Once a Thief, to a local world, and having the actors voiced by others. The social core of the story is familiar: a former robber whose daughter has just been born gives up dirty work and tries to build an honest life as a factory driver. The pull between a father's responsibility and the gravity of the criminal world asks a question many films of the period returned to: does the past ever let a person go? The film asks it within an adventure mould rather than as social analysis, yet it still gives a sense of the anxieties of its time.

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

A film about robbery, gangs and crime, as hard-edged as its title. Fatherhood and the effort to build an honest life carry a nice message, but with a story full of the criminal world and the traps it sets, it isn't suitable for small children. Teenagers and adults can watch it, ideally with older relatives who love old Turkish films. At 74 minutes it doesn't need a long evening either.

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