The Plaintiff

Yunus and Ahmet are neighbours. The sheep Yunus's son is minding get into Ahmet's garden and eat his vegetables. Ahmet loses his temper and hits the boy, and the two men come to blows. Yunus is minded to make peace, but on learning that Ahmet has filed a case he files one of his own. From then on the two neighbours spend years going back and forth to the courthouse. What started with a few vegetables costs them both a great deal. Zeki Ökten directs, with Kemal Sunal as Yunus and Savaş Yurttaş and Serra Yılmaz in the cast. It is a comedy, but underneath it is about how stubbornness and paperwork between them can eat a person alive. Nobody wins.