Hope

"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man, played by Güney, begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment where hope itself becomes the last terrible delusion.

Tuncel Kurtiz

Hasan

Yılmaz Güney

Cabbar

Gülsen Alniaçik

Fatma

Kürsat Alniaçik

Memet Emin

Osman Alyanak

Hüseyin Hodja, the imam

Enver Dönmez

The pickpocket

Sema Engin

Cemile

Nizam Ergüden

Nizam

Hicret Gürson

Hicret

Lütfü Engin

The grocer

Ahmet Koç

Ahmet, the repairman

Kemal Tatli

The police chief

Sevgi Tatli

Hatice

Semra Kaya

Nimet Tezel

Cabbar's mother

Mehmet Eken