Abstract
On Thursday 28 September 1972 Mr Yiltnaz Güney, the famous Turkish film-star, and Mr Abdurrahman Keskiner, the film director, were brought under armed guard into the dock of the Central Criminal Court in Istanbul, to be tried for smuggling a film called ‘Hope’ out of Turkey in order to enter it in the Cannes Film Festival. Meanwhile at the Gold Cocoon Film Festival beingheld in Adana in Southern Turkey, a majority on the jury had voted in favour of awarding the first prize to another of Mr Guney's films, entitled Baba (‘The Father’), and they named him Turkey's best male film star. Osman Turkay comments: