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Country | Turkey |
Language | Turkish |
Budget | $8.000.000 [1] |
Box office | $538,551 |
Reis ( Turkish: The Chief) is a 2017 Turkish biographical film about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the incumbent President of Turkey. It was released shortly before the constitutional referendum which aimed for a transition to an executive presidency. [2]
Reis describes Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's childhood and his 1994 to 1998 Istanbul mayoral tenure. The movie ends when he entered prison in 1998 as a consequence of reading a religiously intolerant poem in Siirt (" minarets are bayonets, domes are helmets, mosques are our barracks, believers are soldiers"). [3]
Hüdaverdi Yavuz, the director of the movie, refused to attend the movie's premiere, citing various troubles during the shooting, unpaid staff, and his forcefully reduced involvement in the post-production process as reasons. [4] IMDb attributed the film a rating of 1.8 based on over 71,000 ratings. Reis attracted shy of 67,580 viewers in the first three days (March 3–5). [5]