Hope (1970)
1h 40m
Running Time
May 25, 1970Release Date
Plot.
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
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Cast & Crew.
Yılmaz Güney
Cabbar
Gülşen Alnıaçık
Fatma
Tuncel Kurtiz
Hasan
Enver Dönmez
The pickpocket
Osman Alyanak
Hüseyin Hodja, the imam
Sema Engin
Cemile
Abdurrahman Keskiner
Producer
Nizam Ergüden
Nizam
Arif Erkin Güzelbeyoğlu
Composer
Kaya Ererez
Cinematographer
Hicret Gürson
Hicret
Celal Köse
Editor
Lütfü Engin
The grocer
Ahmet Koç
Ahmet, the repairman
Kemal Tatli
The police chief
Sevgi Tatli
Hatice
Haci Bayram Kisacik
Tayyar aga
Nimet Tezel
Cabbar's mother
Şerif Gören
Co-Director
Cevat Alkan
Producer
Oğuzhan bayraktar
Kürşat Alnıaçık
Semra Kaya
Mehmet Eken
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Umut is a 1970 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören, featuring Güney as an illiterate horse cab driver, who, after losing one of his horses in an accident, sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure. The film, which wasn't released at the time because of a ban by the Film Control Commission in Turkey, won awards at the 2nd Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, the 7th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and was screened at the 23rd Cannes Film Festival.