When Luck Breaks the Door

When Luck Breaks the Door
Theatrical poster
Directed by
Written by	Tayfun Güneyer
Produced by	Vural Öger
Starring	Ferhan Şensoy Asuman Dabak Zeki Alasya Rasim Öztekin
Cinematography	Veli Kuzlu
Music by	Patrick Chartol Jean-Michel Vallet Claire Michael
Distributed by	WB
Release date	28 January 2005 (2005-01-28)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	Turkey, Cuba
Languages	Turkish, Spanish

When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by , 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 . It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.^[1]

Plot[]

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[]

• Ferhan Şensoy as Kuddusi / Presidente Carlos (Carlos Romário Mustafa Ibrahim Salvador del Puento González Salgado)
• Asuman Dabak as Nermin (Kuddusi's wife)
• Zeki Alasya as Father Alfonso
• as Lezize (Kuddusi's mother-in-law, Nermin's mother)
• Rasim Öztekin as José Ricardo
• as Ercan (Kuddusi's brother-in-law, Nermin's brother)
• as Yaman (Kuddusi's son)
• as Ebru (Kuddusi's daughter)
• as Princess Maria
• Sinan Çetin as Hotel Bonita Cocierge
• Doğa Rutkay as Air Hostess
• Tamer Karadağlı as the Pilot
• Memet Ali Alabora as Flight Passenger 1
• as Flight Passenger 2
• as Presenter (of the TV gameshow)

References[]

External links[]

• Şans Kapıyı Kırınca at IMDb

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