Devil, My Friend

January. 01,1988

Rating：

6.9

Genre：

Fantasy Comedy

Keywords：

Pact With The Devil

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Fatih is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself. They make a deal that Fatih will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls. However the times had changed, and the human had proved to be more evil and smarter than the Devil himself...

Mazhar Alanson as Fatih

Ali Poyrazoğlu as Şeytan

Yaprak Özdemiroğlu as Özgür

Deniz Türkali as Lavinya

Bülent Kayabaş as Birol

Tarık Papuççuoğlu as Mesut

Özkan Uğur as Okan

Ayhan Sicimoğlu as Gökhan

Hüseyin Kutman as Yapımcı

Fuat Güner as Fuat

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Reviews

Rijndri

1988/01/01

Load of rubbish!!

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Ezmae Chang

1988/01/02

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Fatma Suarez

1988/01/03

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Raymond Sierra

1988/01/04

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Ulamax

1988/01/05

Faith (Alanson) is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window (Ozdemiroglu) that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself (Poyrazoglu). They make a deal that Faith, will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls. However the times had changed, and the human had proved to be more evil and smarter than the Devil himself.Overall it's a fine comedy with a touch of drama. Some special effects might be seen as poorly done, however the Turkish cinema in 1980's was still not at a good financial and technical level...still those were an improvement. Aspects of the changing Turkish society, moral values and music industry...and the struggles of the ones (even the Devil) whom cannot keep up with this progress are visible. One of the well-done movies of the decade.This is also a musical movie which has good adult oriented pop tunes done by Mazhar Alanson's band M.F.Ö. for this movie. The band's bassist-vocalist Özkan Ugur also acts as a band member. Other original member of the band, guitarist-vocalist Fuat Güner could not participate that time due to health problems (altough might have been credited, not sure about that)

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