''When Luck Breaks the Door'' ( tr, Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005
Turkish
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* of or about Turkey
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comedy film, written and directed by
Tayfun Güneyer, featuring
Ferhan Şensoy
Osman Ferhan Şensoy (26 February 1951 – 31 August 2021) was a Turkish actor, playwright and director.
Private life
Şensoy was born in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province in northern Turkey on 26 February 1951. After attending Galatasaray ...
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
CIA.
Cast
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Ferhan Şensoy
Osman Ferhan Şensoy (26 February 1951 – 31 August 2021) was a Turkish actor, playwright and director.
Private life
Şensoy was born in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province in northern Turkey on 26 February 1951. After attending Galatasaray ...
as Kuddusi / Presidente Carlos (Carlos Romário Mustafa Ibrahim Salvador del Puento González Salgado)
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Asuman Dabak
Asuman Dabak (born 1 February 1970) is a Turkish actress.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Turkish film actresses
Turkish television actresses
People from Akhisar
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as Nermin (Kuddusi's wife)
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Zeki Alasya
Zeki Alasya (18 April 1943 – 8 May 2015) was a Turkish actor and film director. Alasya was of Turkish Cypriot descent and was related to Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha.
Biography
Alasya was born in Istanbul. After studying at Robert College, h ...
as Father Alfonso
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İlkay Saran as Lezize (Kuddusi's mother-in-law, Nermin's mother)
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Rasim Öztekin
Rasim Öztekin () (14 January 1959 – 8 March 2021) was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1985.
Death
Öztekin died of a heart attack on 8 March 2021 in Istanbul at the age of 62. He was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemete ...
as José Ricardo
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Necmi Yapıcı Necmi () may refer to:
Given name
* Necmi Perekli (born 1948), Turkish footballer
* Necmi Sönmez (born 1968), Turkish-German curator, art critic and writer
Surname
* Ismail Necmi
Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْم ...
as Ercan (Kuddusi's brother-in-law, Nermin's brother)
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Fethi Kantarcı as Yaman (Kuddusi's son)
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Alev Gezer as Ebru (Kuddusi's daughter)
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Ayça Tekindor as Princess Maria
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Sinan Çetin as Hotel Bonita Cocierge
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Doğa Rutkay as Air Hostess
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Tamer Karadağlı as the Pilot
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Memet Ali Alabora as Flight Passenger 1
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İpek Tuzcuoğlu as Flight Passenger 2
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Hakan Yılmaz as Presenter (of the TV gameshow)
References
External links
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2005 films
2000s Turkish-language films
2005 comedy films
Films set in Turkey
Turkish comedy films
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