77 minutes of Turkish cinema chaos that TMDB rated 2/10 — can it possibly be THAT bad?
Acting
Aydemir Akbaş delivers maximum ham as 'Yedi Yürekli Şaban'
Production
1978 Turkish studio system at its most magnificently unhinged
Director
Yavuz Figenli
Zerrin Egeliler
Zehra
Gülşen Gürsoy
Ayşe
Aydemir Akbaş
Yedi Yürekli Şaban
Özcan Özgür
Hafiye
Gülten Kaya
Kenan'ın Sevgilisi
Hakkı Kıvanç
Bahçevan
Renan Fosforoğlu
Rıfkı
İhsan Gedik
Kumarhane Platformu
Celal Yonat
Aşçı Zeynel
Yüksel Gözen
Jill'in Eşi
Ali Demir
Bay Carter
Zeki Sezer
Kumarbaz
Niyazi Vanlı
Gececi Niyazi
Cevdet Balıkçı
Kumarhane Görevlisi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Çapkınlar Kralı belongs to the 'seks komedi' wave of 1970s Turkish cinema, where rapid-fire productions targeted working-class audiences with bawdy humor and recycled plots.
Aydemir Akbaş starred in dozens of similar vehicles; his 'Yedi Yürekli' character name was recycled across multiple unrelated films with different backstories.
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