Muro: Damn the Humanist Inside is a 2008 Turkish comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

, directed by Zübeyr Şaşmaz, starring Mustafa Üstündağ and Şefik Onatoğlu as two revolutionaries recently released from prison, who stumble across a illegal organization run by a former friend. The film, which went on general release across Turkey on , is the third highest-grossing Turkish film of 2008

Turkish films of 2008

A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2008.- Highest-grossing films :- References :...

. It is a spin-off from the Valley of the Wolves

Valley of the Wolves

Valley of the Wolves is a popular Turkish media franchise created by Osman Sınav, which has been very popular obtaining high ratings for the television series and one of the highest box office returns in the history of the Turkish cinema for the first movie.The franchise has also been very...

media franchise, based on the Turkish television series of the same name using characters from the sequel series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush.

Synopsis

Muro (Mustafa Üstündağ) and Çeto (Şefik Onatoğlu), just released from prison, decide to return to their hometown to start a grassroots revolution. The first phase of their plan is to find two girls, get married and start their own families to become good exemplars of revolutionists. However, a surprise awaits them in their hometown. The village head has married Muro and Çeto to two Russian women while they were in prison. The two now have to return to İstanbul to find the women to whom they were married and get divorces if they want to realize their ideals. But on their return to the big city, they stumble across a massive illegal organization that they will never be able to decipher.

Cast

• Mustafa Üstündağ as Muro
• Şefik Onatoğlu as Çeto
• Eray Türk as Yıldırım
• Selim Erdoğan
  Selim Erdogan
  Selim Erdoğan is a Turkish poet. With parents originally from Malatya, he nevertheless had all his life and schooling experience in Elazığ, the neighboring town, where his father had a job, including higher education at Elazığ's Fırat University, Faculty of Engineering...
  
   as Muzo
• Nataliya Bondarenko as Olga
• Daria Litinova as Anna
• Evrim Alasya as Fidan
• Bülent Şakrak
• Demir Karahan

Release

The film opened on general release in 237 screens across Turkey on at number two in the Turkish box office chart with a worldwide opening weekend gross of $1,988,609.

Opening weekend gross

Date	Territory	Screens	Rank	Gross
	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	237	2	$1,988,609
	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	37	69	$475,955
	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	6	7	$78,058
	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	-	14	$33,594

Reception

The movie was number two at the Turkish box office for two weeks running and was the third highest grossing Turkish film of 2009 with a total gross of $11,602,503. It remained in the Turkish box-office charts for seventeen weeks and made a total worldwide gross of $14,073,100.

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