The Blue-Eyed Giant (Turkish title: Mavi Gözlü Dev) is a 2007 biographical film about the period when poet Nazim Hikmet spent in Bursa Prison after 1941. The film was directed by Biket Ilhan, who played the famous poet Yetkin Dikinciler. The filming of the film, which received 175.000 TL support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, took place on the set of the prison established by the art director Mustafa Zia Ülkenciler in Beykoz.[1] The script of the film, which went down in the history of world cinema as the first film about the life of Nazim Hikmet, was rewritten and completed eight times in a period of more than four years. Cem Idiz, who composed the music for the film, also composed Hikmet's poem "Invitation", and this composition was interpreted by Onur Şentürk. The title of the film was compiled from the poem "Blue-Eyed Giant, Tiny Woman and Honeysuckles" by Nazim Hikmet.[2]

Mavi Gözlü Dev
Directed byBiket İlhan
Written by
  • Biket İlhan
  • Nihan Belgin
  • Selay Tozkoparan Oğuz
Music byCem İdiz
Production
company
Sinevizyon Film
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
CountryTurkey

With 228,295 box office admissions, it is the fifth most attended film by a female director in Turkey from 2004 to 2013.[3]

Cast

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Cast Role
Yetkin Dikinciler Nazım Hikmet Ran
Dolunay Soysert Piraye
Özge Özberk Münevver
Uğur Polat Tahsin Bey
Sinan Tuzcu Yusuf
Nil Günal Samiye
Rıza Sönmez Orhan Kemal
Ferit Kaya Balaban
Nihan Belgin Suzan
Bülent Emrah Parlak Police
Suna Keskin Celile
Hakan Gerçek Kanbur Kerim
Nihat İleri Hasan
Devrim Nas Nurullah
Zühtü Erkan Bekir

References

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  1. ^ "The blue-eyed giant".[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "MAVİ GÖZLÜ DEV, MİNNACIK KADIN VE HANIMELLERİ" [THE BLUE-EYED GIANT, THE TINY WOMAN AND ITS HOUSEHOLDS] (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 16 June 2002.
  3. ^ Tanrıöver, Hulya Uğur (26 May 2016). "Women as film directors in Turkish cinema". European Journal of Women's Studies. 24 (4): 331. doi:10.1177/1350506816649985. S2CID 219901544 – via SAGEJournals. Note: Abstract is available.
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