The Cemil Show
Turkey, 2020, 102 minutes, Colour, Turkish; Turkish captioned, English subtitled
Director: Barış Sarhan
Screenplay: Barış Sarhan
Cinematography: Soykut Turan
Editing: Evren Luş
Music: Taner Yücel
Production: Serhan Projects
Cast: Ozan Çelik, Nesrin Cavadzade, Alican Yücesoy, Cezmi Baskın, Başar Alemdar, Fuat Kökek, Sennur Nogaylar, Ülkünur Arslan
Long-suffering mall cop Cemil auditions for the bad guy role in a remake of a Turkish B-movie from the ‘60s from the so-called Yeşilçam era. Even while teaming up with a female colleague whose father played the vintage bad guy, Cemil doesn’t have a chance in hell. A true underdog, he keeps pushing for the role until the role gets him…