Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Language
- Turkish
- Country
- Türkiye
Why tonight?
- In Turkish — subtitles on.
The story
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ragıp Savaş — Orhan Gazi
- Ayşe Tolga — Nilüfer Hatun
- Altay Özbek — Çoban
- Hasan Ali Mete — Küşteri
- Serdar Gökhan — Köse Mihal
- Levent Kazak — Dimitri
- Nihal Yalçın — Zeyno Bacı
- Muhittin Korkmaz — Eredna
- Güçlü Yalçıner — Demirci
- Mete Horozoğlu — Memur Çığırtkan
- Numan Acar — Tıraşçı Ali
- Directed
- Ezel Akay
- Written
- Levent Kazak, Ezel Akay
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 94 ratings
- Studio
- Istisnai Filmler ve Reklamlar (IFR)
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
