TURKEY: Hababam Sinifi - The Class Of Chaos 3.5. 2005

Director: Ferdi Egilmez
Stars: Mali Erbil, Safak Sezer, Seda Sayan, Kabariye
Release date: Turkey - 6 Jan 2006
Length: 101 mins

This is showing at Hoyts Merryland at the moment. I probably won't get to see it, though from the looks of it it might be one of those comedies that doesn't culturally translate as well as some. It's always a risk with humour based films. What's funny to them, might not be funny to you. This film seems to have scored just average on the sites I visited, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. I posted it because the 1975 original, has been celebrated as one of the funniest Turkish comedies ever made.

Synopsis
In this sequel of the most successful legendary comedy of the Turkish cinema, the school master Crazy Bedri decides to get married. His new wife Crazy Bedriye and her son start living in the school with him. Although the lovable and chaotic students of the Hababam Class think that Bedriye would be a new accomplice against their eccentric school master, soon they discover that she is a far more dangerous rival than the emotional Deli (Crazy) Bedri… Now with the support of his newly wed bride, who is not a bit less crazy than he is, Deli Bedri starts his new assaults against the members of the Class of Chaos, with the hope that he can finally get rid of these lazy students.

Guess who wins at the end…

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