Wow! Such a good movie.

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

good back-story, and good acting

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

horse Shiite: This classic Turkish film (although some might wonder at this mainstream movie being called a film) is etched permanently into the psyche of Turkish culture. It's such a shame that there's no kind of film preservation society in Turkey. No One realizes that this film is going to disappear within the next decade or two. If I'm ever successful I've made a promise to my childhood that I'll find a good print of this film and put efforts forward to restore it and preserve it in various formats so that my kids and their kids can one day see it.

Based on a novel by Rıfat Ilgaz, HABABAM SINIFI is a Yeşilçam comedy very much in the ST. TRINIANS mode. For those acquainted with the British series of comedies from the Fifties (with sequels in the Sixties and the Eighries), the basic scenario is to focus on an anarchic class of learners who resist any attempts to be taught and spend much of their time playing tricks on their educators. The educators are either duffers or clapped-out old men yearning for the day that they can retire. In the end the learners are redeemed by the intervention of a unique educator who not only wins their trust but makes them understand the true nature of the education profession.In HABABAM SINIFI the educator is played by Münir Özkul, a rather remote-looking figure in tweed jacket and vest, his eyeglasses fixed to a chain round his neck. He does not assault the learners - as the other educators do - but punishes them with a variety of strategies, including depriving them of food, confining them to school during a weekend, or rescinding other privileges. We do not see him in class very much; he earns the learners' respect by treating them as human beings, as well as believing in the basic nobility of the teaching profession. At one point he delivers a long and sentimental speech on the subject. In the end his efforts to look after the learners drive him into hospital, providing the basis for a triumphant ending when he looks out of the window to see everyone in the school singing his praises.Structurally speaking, Ertem Eğilmez's film comprises a series of sketches designed to show off the comic talents of Kemal Sunal and others. The script is full of witty jokes, and many of the situations are quite amusing; I particularly enjoyed the sequence where the learners convince Sunal that he has a girlfriend, which actually turns out to be a cow. I also enjoyed a quiz-show sequence, where the male learners are miked up so that they can cheat and thereby beat learners from the local girls' school. The film's basic joke is a good one: most of these learners are actually young men who have failed to pass their exams so that they can graduate. Therefore they are still at high school, even though they are all in their early twenties.One of the learners, Damat Ferit, is played by pin-up boy Tarik Akan. He willingly participates in the general gallimaufry, until it is revealed that he is actually the father of a young child. The child is brought to school - there is nowhere else to take it, as his spouse has decamped to İzmir - and it is looked after by the learners, as well as Jill-of-all-trades Hafize Ana (Adile Naşit), who has willingly colluded with the learners in the execution of some of their more outrageous tricks. It is the baby that eventually causes the idealistic educator's illness.As with most Yeşilçam movies, the production values of HABABAM SINIFI leave a little to be desired. The cutting is sometimes abrupt, and the synchronization between sound and vision sometimes goes awry. Nonetheless the action unfolds at a brisk pace, and there are plenty of comic moments. The film offers a good example of Kemal Sunal at his best, before the scripts of his vehicles became too ridiculous.

I watched this film lots of times, and each time I still could find it entertaining, funny and touching. This film's main players Münir Özkul: Mahmut Hoca(Kel Mahmut),Adile Naşit: Hafize Ana,Kemal Sunal: İnek Şaban,Halit Akçatepe: Güdük Necmi, Tarık Akan: Damat Ferit. Hababam Sınıfı Rıfat Ilgaz's very important piece . I like it.because it really very well. I can watch it everyday. Hababam sınıfı; my favorite film .this film shot a film in Çamlıca High School.while this film was taking , I weren't borned. .when I watch TV, it has been every time.If I were you, I would watch at the moment.so you must go to living room and you must watch Hababam Sınıfı.

This is a great comedy but obviously a typical American won't laugh as much as a Turkish person. Kemal Sunal and his classmates play it in the same tradition like Jerry Lewis and Charlie Chaplin. I showed the movie to an American friend, and with some translation, he laughed and enjoyed it, too. So, it is normal for Turks to give it a 10 rating, and non-turks to give a 7.3, and the difference is due to something lost in the translation! The other thing is, the Turks don't laugh at actually what the characters are saying, but HOW they are saying... The facial expressions, the accent, body language.. all contribute... So you have to live for a while in Turkey to fully appreciate this movie...