Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı Review

Ertem Eğilmez shot this sequel in 1975, months after the first Hababam Sınıfı became a hit, and Sadık Şendil's script, from Rıfat Ilgaz's book, puts the same incorrigible repeat students back in the same classroom. Two new teachers give it shape: Şener Şen's Badi Ekrem, a PE teacher who runs the boys in circles and rarely lets them near a ball, and Semra Özdamar's Semra, a young literature teacher who becomes the target of the class's worst ideas.

The pranks are the plot. Tarık Akan's Ferit and Halit Akçatepe's Necmi forge love letters to Şaban in her name, one of which tells him to moo three times in class; a fake memorial for the poet Tevfik Fikret becomes cover for a Fenerbahçe match; a nearsighted old teacher throws a real ministry inspector out of the room, sure it is another stunt. Kemal Sunal plays Şaban as a holy fool with perfect timing, and Münir Özkul's Mahmut Hoca, all bark and hidden softness, anchors every scene he enters.

The camerawork is functional, the episodes could run in almost any order, and the story resolves when the parents are summoned and the blame shifts to them. Melih Kibar's music, which won the Golden Orange, gives it more unity than the script does.