Balatli Arif
Original title: Balatlı Arif
1967
Atıf YılmazCast
Yılmaz Güney Nebahat Çehre Candan Isen Erdogan Akduman Mustafa Alabora Askin Dilek
Credits
Written by: Ayse Sasa
Plot
Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver.
Sinekatalog’s take
A young man in Istanbul's Balat supports his family as his father's horse-carriage driver. The film is a modest neighborhood drama with a real sense of place. For lovers of nostalgic Istanbul stories.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.6 / 10 (254 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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