Blackout Night

Blackout Night — Plot

In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished.

• Release date
• January 1, 1990
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Yusuf Kurçenli

Blackout Night — Cast

Tarık Akan Mustafa Ural Bülent Bilgiç Asteğmen İlhan Paytak Nurseli İdiz Şükran Ural Menderes Samancılar Burhan Morkaya Gökhan Mete Nevzat Erol Günaydın Polis Basri İsmail Hakkı Şen Agop Şükrü Türen Nihat