The Stranger in Town

September. 23,1963      
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A young engineer Aydin comes back to his hometown after years of education as a mining engineer in London. Selami, the owner of a local wood company, paid for Aydin's tuition and expenses. Selami has been the employer of Aydin's father in the past and he acts like an elder brother for Aydin, offers him to stay in his house. Aydin starts to work as the chief engineer in one of the mining companies. From the first day onwards Aydin opposes the mining practices imposed by Rahmi Bey, the owner of the company. He orders to stop mining and deals with the wood sellers who sell low-quality wood used to support the thrusts in the mines.

Nilüfer Aydan as  Gönül
Göksel Arsoy as  Aydın
Reha Yurdakul as  Selami Agaçligil
Ali Şen as  Serafettin Toraman
Talat Gözbak as  Mustafa Bakirci
Erol Taş as  Nazif Usta
Hasan Ceylan as  Recep

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Reviews

Neive Bellamy
1963/09/23

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Bob
1963/09/24

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Geraldine
1963/09/25

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Billy Ollie
1963/09/26

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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