The White Angel () is a 2007 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which follows the story of two Eastern youths who find themselves in a rest home after their father comes down with cancer. The film, which went on general release across Turkey on , won the Remi Award at the 41st WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and was the second highest-grossing Turkish film of 2007.
Plot Ali and Reşat bring their father Ahmet who is suffering from brain cancer for chemotherapy treatment in Istanbul. Unable to bear the treatment and thinking himself to be a burden, Ahmet runs away from the hospital and manages to reach a home for elders. The residents believe him to be abandoned by his children and take him in. Ali and Reşat find him but decide to let him stay when they see that he is happy there. They learn the stories and backgrounds of each of the elders. Two of them, Yaşar and Nebahat have fallen in love and plan to get married. Ahmet arrangers for a big wedding and invites them to his home village in Diyarbakır for their honeymoon together with all the other elders.
Cast Mahsun Kırmızıgül - Ali Arif Erkin Güzelbeyoğlu - Ahmet Yıldız Kenter - Melek Nejat Uygur - Gazi Cemal Yavuz Bingöl - Hıdır Erol Günaydın - Commander Vahit Sarp Apak - Reşat Zeynep Tokuş - Nazlı Toron Karacaoğlu - Yorgo Salih Kalyon - Hacı Cezmi Baskın - Sabri Lale Belkıs - Nebahat] Ali Sürmeli - Zeki Tomris Oğuzalp - Suzan Fırat Tanış - Musa Fadik Sevin Atasoy - Hatice Necmi Yapıcı - Ömer Erol Demiröz - Laz İlhan Cihat Tamer - Huzurevi Müdürü Tayyar Nurşim Demir - Bakıcı Tanju Tuncel - Perihan Hüseyin Avni Danyal - Selim Lale Tancı - Sultan Hemşire Gazanfer Özcan - Palyaço Emel Sayın - Herself Suna Selen - Mızgin Bilge Zobu - Yaşar Hoca
Reception Reviews Today's Zaman reviewer M. Nedim Hazar states that the film contains, the East-West contradiction and a comparison of values. It brings the dominating force of the West -- the mind -- and that of the East -- the heart - face to face, but doesn't take a folkloric approach to the East-West comparison as in Yılmaz Erdoğan's movies. Apart from this, it still falls into the marshland of exaggerated caricature-ization which seems to have "worked into the veins" of the celebrities who star in the film. Moviegoers might be fond of this, but it is still an important setback for a movie. He concludes it is a film, that will shock -- in a positive sense -- those whose expectations for the film are very low because of Kırmızıgül. It's also a movie that is very "presentable," whose language and message is very clear. In addition, it contains as much laughter and tears as any Yeşilçam movie does. It should be watched and applauded as a first film of a first-time director..
Awards 41st WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (Huston): Remi Award.
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