When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assassination plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on January 28, 2005 (2005-01-28), was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.[1]
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Directed by | Tayfun Güneyer |
Written by | Tayfun Güneyer |
Produced by | Vural Öger |
Starring | Ferhan Şensoy Asuman Dabak Zeki Alasya Rasim Öztekin |
Cinematography | Veli Kuzlu |
Music by | Patrick Chartol Jean-Michel Vallet Claire Michael |
Distributed by | WB |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Countries | Turkey, Cuba |
Languages | Turkish, Spanish |
When Kuddusi Yurdum misses the final answer on the TV gameshow "Şans Kapıyı Kırınca", his family is given a consolation prize: a vacation to Barboonia, a fictional "banana republic" island country near Cuba. They are welcomed there by the country's dictator President Carlos, in order to stop an assassination plot by the CIA.
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