Alone

Issız Adam

Turkey

2008

113 Min

Color

2.35:1

Turkish

Currently 2.1/5 Stars.
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CAST Cemal Hünal, Melis Birkan, Yıldız Kültür, Goncagül Sunar, Gözde Kansu, Aslı Aybars Şerif Bozkurt

MUSIC Aria, Cenk Erdoğan, Cengiz Onural, Bora Ebeoğlu

Synopsis

Alper is in his mid 30s and a good chef at his own restaurant. He loves luxury and spends his life with one-night stands and paid love. One day, his life changes utterly as he walks into a second-hand shop where he first encounters Ada who is in her late 20s and has a shop where she designs costumes for kids. She leads a modest life and one day while looking for a book, her and Alper’s paths cross. Alper is fascinated by Ada’s beauty and starts following her with the book she has been looking for. They both experience first signs of love, which they have never experienced before. Although Alper tries to fit Ada into his life, he realizes that this narrows his life down while on the other hand Ada has already fallen in love with him. ‘Issiz Adam’ portrays the life of those whose lives have been isolated by modern lifestyles. The film is also filled with food, mothers, old songs, and love. —IMDB

Director

Çağan Irmak

Çağan Irmak (born 4 April 1970 in Seferihisar, Turkey) is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series “Çemberimde Gül Oya” (2004-2005) and “Asmalı Konak” (2002-2004), and for the hit films “Alone” (2008) and “My Father and My Son” (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director.

He studied Radio, TV and Film Studies at Ege University Faculty of Communications, receiving the Sedat Simavi Award for two short films, “Masal” (The Tale) and “Kurban” (The Sacrifice), which he made in the course of his studies. After graduating in 1992, he worked in cinema and television as an assistant director to Orhan Oğuz, Mahinur Ergun, Filiz Kaynak and Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded first prize by IFSAK for his short film “Play Me Old and Wise” (1998).

He wrote and directed the TV series “Good Morning Brother Istanbul”… read more

Çağan Irmak (born 4 April 1970 in Seferihisar, Turkey) is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series “Çemberimde Gül Oya” (2004-2005) and “Asmalı Konak” (2002-2004), and for the hit films “Alone” (2008) and “My Father and My Son” (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director.

He studied Radio, TV and Film Studies at Ege University Faculty of Communications, receiving the Sedat Simavi Award for two short films, “Masal” (The Tale) and “Kurban” (The Sacrifice), which he made in the course of his studies. After graduating in 1992, he worked in cinema and television as an assistant director to Orhan Oğuz, Mahinur Ergun, Filiz Kaynak and Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded first prize by IFSAK for his short film “Play Me Old and Wise” (1998).

He wrote and directed the TV series “Good Morning Brother Istanbul” (1998-2001) on atv, and the TV film “Strawberry Cake” (2000) before achieving some early success with his first feature film, “Wish Me Luck” (2001), which Rekin Teksoy describes as “unremarkable”, and collaborations with Mahinur Ergun on the hit TV series “Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı” (2001) for TRT, and “Asmalı Konak” (2002-2004) for atv, for which he received numerous awards.

A period of great success followed with popular TV series “Çemberimde Gül Oya” (2004-2005) on Kanal D, and hit films “Everything About Mustafa” (2004) and “My Father and My Son” (2005), which according to Rekin Teksoy “succesfully exploited the melodramatic idiom and was a huge box-office success,” which, “showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences” as well as recieving six Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards including Best Director.

Following this he wrote and directed several instalment in the TV horror film series “Kabuslar Evi” for FOX, and the film The Messenger before achieving another popular success with the film “Alone” (2008). Since then he has made the short film “Düşlerimdeki Atatürk” (2008), the TV series “Yol Arkadaşım” (2008-2009) for Star and the film “In Darkness” (2009). His latest film is “Sleeping Princess” (2010). —Wikipedia

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