MUHSIN BEY

MUHSIN BEY, 1987

Turkey | DVD, Color, 145’ | Turkish, English subtitles
Director: Yavuz Turgul

Cast: Şener Şen, Uğur Yücel, Sermin Hürmeriç, Osman Cavcı

Ali Nazik comes to Istanbul with dreams of becoming a folksinger and seeks help from his father’s friend from military service, the music producer Muhsin Bey. At first the latter, a true Istanbul gentleman and lover of Turkish art music, refuses this request, but later changes is mind, thinking he can help Ali. “Muhsin Bey” turns a mirror on changing tastes and disappearing values and on old Istanbul versus degeneration and the “arabesque” lifestyle which began in the 1980s. Now considered one of the “Turkish classics,” the film was restored this year and we will be viewing a restored copy.