The Market: A Tale of Trade
2008 · Movie · 93 min · ★ 6.4 · 78% critics
A small-time black market trader in 1990s Turkey dreams of going legit by breaking into the booming cell phone business. To raise the money, he agrees to secure scarce medicine for sick children, pulling him into risky deals, tense negotiations, and morally messy choices that test his limits.
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Details
- Original title
- Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-11-27
- Language
- TR
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (15 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a grounded, darkly funny drama about ambition, bargaining, and the cost of getting ahead; Not for you if you prefer uplifting stories or clear-cut heroes, like in The Forest for the Trees.
Pros: gritty realism; dark humor; tense bargaining scenes | Cons: bleak moments; morally uncomfortable choices; occasional absurd detours
Cast & crew
Tayanç Ayaydın
as Mihram
Genco Erkal
as Fazil
Şenay Aydın
as Elif
Hakan Şahin
as Mustafa
Rojin
as Singer
Cengiz Bozkurt
as Hasan
Melih Düzenli
as Osman
Ferit Kaya
as Serhat
Serap Önder
as Yaşlı Kadın
Sinan Tuzcu
as Telefon İşçisi
Directed by Ben Hopkins