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Eyyvah Eyvah
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Wikipedia article
'Eyyvah Eyvah' is a 2010 Turkish comedy film, directed by Hakan Algl, which stars Ata Demirer as a young clarinet player who travels to Istanbul in search of his estranged father. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , is one of the highest-grossing Turkish films of 2010 and was followed by the sequel Eyyvah Eyvah 2 (2011).
Production
The film was shot on location in Istanbul and anakkale, Turkey.
Plot
Hseyin (Ata Demirer) is a young man living with his grandparents in a village in Turkey's Thracian region. Two things are of great importance in Hseyin's life: his clarinet and his fiance. However, one day Hseyin is forced to go to stanbul and leave behind his beloved village. In the big city, Hseyin will receive the biggest support from his clarinet and later from a bar singer called Firuzan (Demet Akba). Firuzan, who storms stanbul's night clubs with her songs, already leads a very colorful and highly complicated life, which, with Hseyin's inclusion, gets all the more colorful with comedy and action.
Release
The film opened across Germany on and across Turkey and Austria on at number one in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of $1,597,709.
Reception
Box office
The film was number one at the Turkish box office for four weeks running and has made a total gross of $12,011,619.References
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