Yaşar: Neither Alive Nor Dead

Yaşar goes with his father to the population office when he is nine. They want to get him an identity card. Something is wrong in the register. Yaşar is written down there as dead. It says he fell at Çanakkale. His father explains that his son is alive. The clerks are not convinced. The boy is given no papers. Years pass. Yaşar is called up for military service. He serves without any papers. When he comes back he wants to marry Ayşe. His father has died in the meantime. He needs the inheritance for the bride price. But with no papers he cannot prove he is the heir. Yaşar sets out to get both his identity and his inheritance. Halit Akçatepe and Necla Soylu appear in the seventy nine minute film, a Turkish production Ergin Orbey finished in 1975.