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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1980 - 26 July.3 August

Sections & Films

THE BABY

Category: Edition 1980

Synopsis
In Istanbul there are three boys who meet there for various reasons: Matin escaped from the reformatory because he had learned that his mother was a prostitute, Apo who had left the country to treat his father hospitalized and instead learns that his father is dead. Recep a young boy escaped from a Black Sea country is attacked by a driver and is saved by Matin and Apo. The three find refuge and live by selling contraband cigarettes. Apo in the courtyard of a mosque finds a child and, not finding his mother, keeps him with him. He later learns that his father is not dead but has remarried. He visits him and understands that there is no more room for him, then he pours all his love on the baby. The police discover their refuge and the three are sent to reform. Metin finds Aysel who has always loved and marries her, even accepting her mother's past; at the same time Apo who works as a porter meets the mother of the child and in vain tries to escape it because he wants to keep the baby with him, but in the end he gives it back with great pain.

Original Title BEBEK
Category Official Competition
Festival Awards Special Prize (1980)
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 88'
Production Year 1979
Nationality Turkey
Directed by Ihsan Yüce
Screenplay Yilmaz Kuzgun, Ihsan Yüce
Main cast Tuncay Akça, Mahir Günsiray, Bilgen Bengü

 regista Ihsan YüceHSAN YÜCE