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Director
  
M.Egemen Erturk

Running time
  
1h 41m

Music director
  
Ilker Yurtcan

Country
  
Turkey

4.9/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Budget
  
1 million USD

Writer
  
Egemen Erturk

Language
  
Turkish

The Ringing Ball movie poster

Release date
  
September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18)

Initial release
  
September 18, 2009 (Turkey)

Cast
  
Timur Acar
,
Yüksel Aksu
,
Ayhan Anıl

Similar movies
  
Nekrut (2008), Kanimdaki Barut (2009), 10 to 11 (2009), Ilyas Salman appears in The Ringing Ball and Seytanin pabucu, Men on the Bridge (2009)

The Ringing Ball (Turkish: Çıngıraklı Top) is a 2009 Turkish comedy film written and directed by Mahir Egemen Ertürk, about a team of blind football players who want to attend the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18), has been screened at film festivals in Ankara and Salonika.

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Production

The film was shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey.

Plot

The film follows a handful of blind people, including a fisherman, a call-center agent and a man who sells lottery tickets on the street, from the Bosporus Society for the Blind, training to compete in the soccer category at the Paralympics. Kerem (Burak Önal), a former soccer star who has become an alcoholic coaches the team and falls in love with the beautiful Semra (İpek Özkök), a young woman works for the society. Unfortunately, Kerem has some thugs on his tail due to his past debts and his weakness for wine puts his coaching activities in danger.

General release

The film opened in 45 screens across Turkey on September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) at number sixteen in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of $12,819.

Festival screenings

  • 21st Ankara International Film Festival
  • 50th Selanik International Film Festival
  • Box Office

    The film has made a total gross of $67,352.

    Reviews

    Emine Yıldrım, writing in Today's Zaman, describes the film as, "a borderline emotion exploiter that performs quite pleasantly despite some of its excesses until that point at the very end in which the filmmakers transform their cute story into a slice of unnecessary arabesque." "The film", he continues, "has a lot of funny and sweet moments thanks to the enthusiasm of the actors who are playing the blind team members, and director Ertürk should be congratulated for portraying them with respect instead of pity", and, "I was smiling with amusement as I was watching this quasi-sports comedy until I was subjected to the bombardment of sentiment in the movie's final 10 minutes, thus I regret to say that I couldn't help ending up cowered with a sour expression on my face. They had taken away my feel-good moment, and I don't even know for what purpose." He concludes that the film, "has the potential to reach the hearts of enough audience members; it tries to illustrate a positive message - anyone can do anything. It's just that no one wants to watch an alcoholic overcome with self-pity if they're in the mood for regaining hope."

    References

    The Ringing Ball Wikipedia
    The Ringing Ball IMDbThe Ringing Ball themoviedb.org