Screenings: 27 October 2026 Tuesday 20:00 (GALA) / 4 December 2026 Friday 20:00 / 3 January 2027 Sunday 14:00
 

Director: Lütfi Ö. Akad
Screenplay: Attilâ İlhan (Ali Kaptanoğlu)
Cast: Sadri Alışık, Çolpan İlhan, Turgut Özatay, Ahmet Tarık Tekçe, Sadettin Erbil
 

Türkiye / 1959 / 113 min. / Black and white / English subtitles
 

With Lütfi Ömer Akad’s masterful direction, a screenplay by poet Attilâ İlhan and unforgettable dialogue, Port of the Lonely has become a classic of Turkish cinema. Shot amid Istanbul’s misty, sombre atmosphere, the film tells, in a poetic and melancholy language, of a solitary ship’s captain (Sadri Alışık) drifting from port to port and a nightclub hostess (Çolpan İlhan) trying to survive in a dark world, who cling to one another in search of hope and love.

* The film was digitally scanned from a 35 mm positive print held in the TRT archive, with the scan supplied by the archive. Digital restoration was carried out at Atlas Post Production. We thank our restoration project sponsor, Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi; Mimar Sinan University’s Cinema & TV Institute for its contribution to the process; and the rights holder, Beşiktaş Cultural Center.