World Upside Down
A World Upside Down

Director: Ersin Pertan
Producer:
Screenplay: Ersin Pertan (adapted from Orhan Kemal's novel of the same name)
Year: 1994
Director of photography: Uğur Döndür
Music: Onno Tunç
Cast: Demet Akbağ, Rasim Öztekin, Lale Mansur, Jale Arıkan, Tomris Incer, Erdinç Akbaş, Serra Yılmaz, Suat Sungur, Cem Davran, Candan Sabuncu, Sevim Gelenbe, Ümran İnceoğlu, Olgun Şimşek, Canan Suavi, Can Kolukısa, Suzan Aksoy, Berhan Şimşek, Sevda Ferdağ
Production Company: Özer Film
Color: Colorful
Country: Türkiye
Release date: 07.01.1994
Plot: It is told that events take place in reverse in a world where men and women change places.

Notes about the movie:
The film reverses gender roles through the element of comedy. It reverses issues such as prejudices against women, harassment, male-dominated views and business life. In the story where men are sometimes victimized, designs are produced among gender inequality.

Contents related to the movie:
An analysis of gender comedy in the movie Reverse World as an adaptation of a novel. Güven Akdoğan, Özge. (2017). Journal of Communication Theory and Research, (45).
A Critical Reading of Masculinity Typologies in Turkish Films from Inside and Outside: The World Upside Down and Number 14. Aktaş, Zeynep. (2019). Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(1), 42-57.

Awards:
30th Golden Orange Film Festival (1993) “Best. Supporting Actress” (Demet Akbağ)

Source:
Güven Akdoğan, Özge. (2017). An analysis of gender comedy in the movie Reverse World as an adaptation of a novel. Journal of Communication Theory and Research, (45).
Onaran, Alim Şerif & Vardar, Bülent. (2005). Turkish Cinema in the Last Five Years of the 20th Century. Istanbul: Beta Kitap.
Özgüç, Agâh. (2012). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Movies. Istanbul: Horizon International.
Özgüç, Agâh. (2014). Dictionary of Turkish Films 1914-2014. Istanbul: Republic of Turkey Culture and Tourism Ministry.