''When Luck Breaks the Door'' ( tr, Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005

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comedy film, written and directed by

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, featuring

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as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assassination plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on , was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.

Plot

When Kuddusi Yurdum misses the final answer on the TV gameshow "Şans Kapıyı Kırınca", his family is given a consolation prize: a vacation to Barboonia, a fictional " banana republic" island country near Cuba. They are welcomed there by the country's dictator President Carlos, in order to stop an assassination plot by the

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Cast

as Kuddusi / Presidente Carlos (Carlos Romário Mustafa Ibrahim Salvador del Puento González Salgado) *

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as Nermin (Kuddusi's wife) *

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as Father Alfonso * İlkay Saran as Lezize (Kuddusi's mother-in-law, Nermin's mother) *

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as José Ricardo * Necmi Yapıcı as Ercan (Kuddusi's brother-in-law, Nermin's brother) * Fethi Kantarcı as Yaman (Kuddusi's son) *

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as Ebru (Kuddusi's daughter) *

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as Princess Maria *

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as Hotel Bonita Cocierge *

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as Air Hostess *

Tamer Karadağlı Tamer Karadağlı (born 24 May 1967) is a Turkish actor. Biography Tamer Karadağlı's family was of Azerbaijanis origin and moved to America a short time after he was born. They returned to Turkey just as he began primary school there. He stud ...

as the Pilot *

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as Flight Passenger 1 *

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as Flight Passenger 2 * Hakan Yılmaz as Presenter (of the TV gameshow)

References

External links

* 2005 films 2000s Turkish-language films 2005 comedy films Films set in Turkey Turkish comedy films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub