Babam ve Oğlum (My Father and My Son) is a 2005 Turkish film written and directed by Çağan Irmak. In Turkey, the movie was seen by four million cinemagoers in spring 2005 becoming one of the most successful movies inTurkish box-office history.
PlotIn order to study journalism at Istanbul University, Sadık leaves his village on the Aegean coast. This angers his father, Hüseyin, who wants him to study Agricultural Engineering so he can manage the family farm. During his years at university Sadık becomes politically active. Upon learning about Sadik's behavior, Hüseyin disowns him.
However worse days are ahead for Sadik. In the early hours of the morning on September 12, 1980 Sadık's pregnant wife starts having contractions. The couple runs outside, but they can't find anyone to take them to the hospital. The country has been taken over in a military coup. Sadık's wife gives birth in a park and dies, but their son, Deniz, lives.
Because of his political activities, Sadık is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for three years during which time he loses his health. A few years after being released, he finds out that he will die. Having no other choice, he takes Deniz back to his family farm on the Aegean into the care of his mother and his father, who still does not speak to him. For Deniz, who is absorbed in the magical world of comic books, meeting his relatives on the farm is a new experience. There is his grandmother (Hümeyra Akbay) who drives a tractor and speaks on a short wave radio, his aunt Hanife (Binnur Kaya) who wears bracelets from her wrist all the way to her shoulder, and his uncle (Yetkin Dikinciler) who is a little naive.
There is trouble in store, however, for Sadık and Hüseyin who must come to terms with their past and each other. Sadık also needs to face his first love, now married with two children, and the question of old friends. However his sickness takes over and Sadık passes away. His parents take over the responsibility of Deniz who comes into term with his father's loss.
CastFikret Kuskan (Sadik)
Çetin Tekindor (Hüseyin)
Hümeyra (Babanne)
Şerif Sezer (Teyze)
Yetkin Dikinciler (Salim)
Binnur Kaya (Hanife)
Özge Özberk (Birgül)
Halit Ergenç
Tuba Büyüküstün
Mahmut Gökgöz
Bilge Sen
Ege Tanman (Deniz)
Erdal Tosun
Nergis Çorakçi
Can Senozan (Mehmet)
AwardsThe film won an award for its soundtrack at the World Soundtrack Awards, awarded to Evanthia Reboutsika.