İnek Şaban is a 1979 Turkish comedy film directed by Osman F. Seden.
The film was examined in a 2019 Istanbul University master's thesis on football and mass culture in Turkish cinema, which analyzes İnek Şaban in terms of the corruption arising from the relationship between organized crime and football, as well as the representation of masculine conflict within the sport.
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Plot
{{One day, Şaban, an apprentice at a greengrocer's, goes to the airport to go to Germany to pay the bride price for the girl he loves . However, Kara Mithat's men, mistaking Şaban for goalkeeper Bülent, drag him away to Mithat. Şaban takes Bülent's place in matches, remembering the watermelons he threw at the greengrocer's, and becomes a giant in goal. Towards the end of the film, Bülent returns and the truth is revealed.}}
Cast
Kemal Sunal - İnek Şaban / Kaleci Bülent
Defne Yalnız - Zeliha
Yavuz Karakaş - Arap Nuri
Saadet Gürses - Ayşe
Dinçer Çekmez - Kara Mithat
Osman F. Seden - Kulüp Başkanı
Zeki Sezer - Doctor
Abdi Algül - Kara Mithat's henchman
Macit Flordun - Coach
Nermin Özses - Ayşe's mother
Kudret Karadağ - Mardinli Arif's henchman
Ali Şen - Bekir Efendi
Mehmet Uğur - Arap Nuri's henchman
İbrahim Kurt - Jilet Rıza's henchman
Baykal Kent - Manda
İbrahim Uğurlu - Kara Mithat's henchman
Orhan Elmas - Menajer Kayhan
Nuri Tuğ - Gardener Recep
Süheyl Eğriboz - Jilet Rıza
Cevdet Balıkçı - Arap Nuri's henchman
Çetin Başaran - Kara Mithat's henchman