| When Luck Breaks the Door | |
| Director: | Tayfun Güneyer |
| Producer: | Vural Öger |
| Starring: | Ferhan Şensoy Asuman Dabak Zeki Alasya Rasim Öztekin |
| Music: | Patrick Chartol Jean-Michel Vallet Claire Michael |
| Cinematography: | Veli Kuzlu |
| Distributor: | WB |
| Runtime: | 107 minutes |
| Country: | Turkey, Cuba |
| Language: | Turkish, Spanish |
When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assassination plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on, was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba.[1]
When Kuddusi Yurdum misses the final answer on the TV gameshow "Şans Kapıyı Kırınca", his family is given a consolation prize: a vacation to Barboonia, a fictional "banana republic" island country near Cuba. They are welcomed there by the country's dictator President Carlos, in order to stop an assassination plot by the CIA.