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KILLING THE SHADOW

HACIVAT KARAGOZ NEDEN OLDURULDU

By Ezel AKAY

IFR A.S - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2005

- Year of production
- 2005
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- TURKEY
- Languages
- TURKISH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 134 mn
- Director(s)
- Ezel AKAY
- Writer(s)
- Levent KAZAK, Ezel AKAY
- Cast
- Haluk BILGINER, Beyazit OZTURK, Sebnem DONMEZ, Guven KIRAC
- Producer(s)
- Bahadir ATAY (IFR), Serkan CAKARER (IFR)
- Synopsis
- What really happened in the year 1345, an unrecorded period of the last six months in the lives of two legendary Turkish stand-up comedians, Karagoz and Hacivat? They lived and died during the first clashes of the decaying Eastern Roman Empire and the first Ottomans of the 14th century Anatolia. This is a period when Christians, Jews, Muslims and their related heretical sects existed and were squeezed between the hordes of nomadic Turks and a corrupted Eastern Roman Empire. Their stories are adapted for traditional shadow theatre of the later Ottoman Empire, in modern Turkey and all over the Middle-East. Although the legend and truth about their tragic deaths have been twisted and distorted in time, their stingy humor still lingers on. A story about the tragedy and danger of humor and the humorist.