''Commissar Shakespeare'' (Original Turkish title: ''Komser Şekspir'') is a 2001 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by

Sinan Çetin Sinan Çetin (born March 1, 1953) is a Turkish film director, actor, and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival. Çetin was born as one of the eight children of a customs officer. He is of matern ...

Plot

Cemil is an acting Police Chief and a single father with an only daughter Su. Su who has been cast in the role of

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("Pamuk Prenses") in the school play, is rehearsing when she blacks out and is taken to hospital where she is found to have

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...

. Meanwhile, Cemil's men round up a number of people, including Danyal (a mafioso), Tatü Hayati (a small-time drug dealer), Ali (a drug addict) and Deniz (an ageing prostitute). When Su's teacher refuses her the role of Snow White, Cemil, sensing his daughter's disappointment, decides that he will produce the play himself and enter it in a TV competition against the school. He fills the cast with inmates and junior police officers under his command. Tatü Hayati who was formerly a child actor under the name "Küçük Hayaticik" (Little Hayati) and has knowledge of theatre, is appointed director. Deniz is cast as the Queen, Ali as the Prince and seven street children as the seven dwarves. The cast is instructed to present themselves to Su as real, professional actors and rehearsals begin in an empty jail cell at Cemil's police station. When Deniz breaks her leg, Danyal replaces her as the Queen. A human rights organization pays a surprise visit to the station. They mistake the rehearsals as a prison rehabilitation program and are impressed. The district attorney and his men who visit the station on a tipoff are imprisoned in a jail cell. Cemil and the cast head to the studio for the filming . Danyal shot by a rival gangster and is replaced by Cemil as the Queen. Hayati stands in for a dwarf and is recognised by one in audience as former child star Hayaticik. The district attorney manages to escape and alerts the Police who arrest Cemil at the studio. Su dies of her disease in the final scene of the play. While Cemil is about to be sent to prison, it turns out he has been pardoned and promoted due to the glowing report by the Human rights organization about his police station. Cemil rejects the promotion and decides to form a theatre group with his former inmates and they pick Romeo and Juliet as their next project.

Cast

Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır (born 15 April 1949) is a Turkish film actor and director. Biography İnanır was born on 15 April 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in 43 films since 1967 and appeared on television in ''Bütün Çocuk ...

(Cemil) * Okan Bayülgen (Tatü Hayati) *

Müjde Ar Kamile Suat Ebrem (born 21 June 1954), better known as Müjde Ar, is a Turkish film actress.

(Deniz) *

Pelin Batu Pelin Batu (born 27 December 1978) is a Turkish author, actress, historian, and television personality. Biography Due to her father İnal Batu's career as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including Pakistan, Cypr ...

(Su) *

Özkan Uğur Raif Özkan Uğur (born October 17, 1953) is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. He was born as the 5th child of his family. He graduated Reşat Nuri Güntekin Primary School where he met and started playing ...

(Danyal) * Gazanfer Özcan (Cemil's father)

References

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*{{IMDb title, id=0273718, title=Komser Şekspir 2001 films 2000s Turkish-language films 2001 comedy-drama films Films set in Turkey Turkish comedy-drama films