7 Kocali Hürmüz (2009)

• Year: 2009
• Released: 20 Nov 2009
• Country: Turkey
• Adwords: 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523583/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/7_kocali_hurmuz
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Turkish
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Comedy
• Runtime: 122 min
• Writer: Gürsel Korat, Gursel Korat Saglamöz, Gürsel Korat Saglamöz
• Director: Ezel Akay
• Cast: Nurgül Yesilçay, Gülse Birsel, Haluk Bilginer
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6.3/10

7 Kocali Hürmüz Storyline

Hürmüz lives in Taskasap, Istanbul and has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems. She arranges to meet each of her husbands one day of the week. However,she suddenly falls in love with the town’s doctor whom she meets at her husband’s barber shop, and the doctor falls in love with her.

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7 Kocali Hürmüz Movie Reviews

Another Masterpiece for Turkish cinema from Ezel Akay.

Yet again too much for its audience, who are not able to break their dogmatic historical beliefs.

Previous title from Ezop (Ezel AKAY), was a silver-screen remake of infamous shadow theater play, Hacivat and Karagöz suffered the same reaction. Turkish people are not ready to deal with the image of history in their minds, not ready to accept that the historical characters had their own lives. Movie of Hacivat and Karagöz was , although hammered with realism of Osman Hamdi, a historical comedy. Most of the Jokes were inspired by daily lives of ordinary inhabitants of modern Turkey. Of course there would be inconveniences, the plot is 14th century Bursa, the inspirations about Ottoman lives were from 19th century painter(Osman Hamdi Bey) and lives of modern Turks. Most critics were stuck with warrior dresses of women corps (no hijab), let me tell you some more, coffee was not invented until 2 centuries later, and the best one till middle of 15th century Call to prayer was in Turkic(hope i am not insulting your beliefs). Why didn’t anybody criticize this? Although i do not refuse poor performance of some actors,but the rest were superb.

Critics about 7 kocalı Hürmüz, is surprisingly centered on costumes and decorations, which i fell in love at first sight. As much as Hacivat and Karagöz used realist aspects, 7 Kocalı Hürmüz used surrealism of Ottoman miniatures, which left a taste between Smurffs and Simpsons in my cerebrum. Especially 19th century Istanbul was hilarious(much unlike 1001 nights view a western audience would guess, a Turkish would demand), Costumes were extremely surrealist( except for old men in tea garden and handsome Medic),even German Pasha was a mere clown. But hey we are back to comedy genre.

Ezel was mistaken in one point. Trade, mother of all evil, Turkish people wouldn’t like(cos they wouldn’t understand) such complexity in jokes, set and costume design, and reviewing history from an angle different than they “want to” imagine. They would want to see cheap productions(and cheapest humor) like Maskeli Besler. Another commercial failure for him and for Turkish Cinema.

Perhaps i am looking from an engineer perspective(Ezel is also an engineer), I loved the movie as it is now, and i think both movie and sound track are a must have. It took me to my childhood, as if i was reading Alice in Wonderland, or an Ökkeş story once more, watching my favorite cartoons (not excluding Tom and Jerry), and the best songs from my baby brother. This is more valuable than priceless.

Bright filmmaker crashes and burns this time.

Before watching this movie I considered myself a fan of Ezel Akay and liked everything he was involved in creatively. “Neredesin Firuze” and “Karagöz ve Hacivat Neden Öldürüldü” were among my favorite movies. He seemed to get better with every project – that is until this disorganized flop.

“7 Kocali Hürmüz” is a well-known Turkish musical loved by generations. This 2009 remake is unworthy of it. This movie actually butchers, vandalizes, oversimplifies, and simply ruins that memory with awful acting, badly designed decor and costumes, but mostly with of a horrible screenplay riddled with witless lumpen humor.

There are so many things to criticize in the movie, but still being a fan of Akay, I will cut it short and hope that he would learn from this debacle to get back on the right track. I suspect that his failure is partly caused by the creative involvement of Cem Özer and Nurgül Yesilcay, who are the pushers of the project.

Hilarious remake of the Turkish musical classic

Though disloyal to the original theatrical script, this very remake of “7 Husbands for Hürmüz” is one of the most hilarious remake of the Turkish musical classic. Director Ezel Akay’s creative depiction of Ottoman Istanbul, Gülse Birsel’s unprecedented self-esteem and lucid acting and Nurgül Yeşilçay’s charm offer you an uninterrupted entertainment of 2 hours. The story evolves around 7 different men from 7 different ethnic and social backgrounds in Ottoman Turkey, wherein each of them fell in love with beautiful Hürmüz, who successfully manipulates and utilize them for her own good. At one instance, however, the men start realizing that Hürmüz is duping each and everyone of them. Unfortunately, the script is immensely embedded with equivocations, imitations and accent jokes, which might constitute a rather dull lost-in-translation script for non-Turkish speakers. The movie is unlikely be a milestone for Turkish cinema, nevertheless, it was definitely one of the most colorful, cheerful and best movies made in 2009.