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When Luck Breaks the Door

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When Luck Breaks the Door
Theatrical poster
Directed byTayfun Güneyer
Written byTayfun Güneyer
Produced byVural Öger
StarringFerhan Şensoy
Asuman Dabak
Zeki Alasya
Rasim Öztekin
CinematographyVeli Kuzlu
Music byPatrick Chartol
Jean-Michel Vallet
Claire Michael
Distributed byWB
Release date
  • 28 January 2005 (2005-01-28)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesTurkey, Cuba
LanguagesTurkish, Spanish

When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy 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 January 28, 2005 (2005-01-28), was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.[1]

Plot

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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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References

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  1. ^ ""Şans Kapıyı Kırınca" Türkler'in Küba istilası". sinematurk.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
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