Les Choristes with Balls

Despite all the talking about Hababam Sinifi here in this board, I haven't seen a single line referencing to "Les Choristes" (aka The Chorus). I can certainly name Les Choristes as the French Hababam Sinifi. On the contrary, non-turkish audience can name Hababam Sinifi as the Turkish version of Les Choristes. But hey, this would be odd as Hababam Sinifi was filmed almost 30 years ago before Les Choristes.
---possible spoilers ahead----
---oh, forget it, fellow nonTurks won't have a chance to see Hababam Sinifi anyway:)---
Lets take the main characters of Hababam Sinifi. For example, Mahmut Hoca (principle Mahmut). You can easily recall Clément Mathieu from Les Choristes as he is always trying to educate up his students despite all of their mischief. He is patient, understanding yet a little bit harder on students than Clément Mathieu. At the end, he is the one who shows the way of goodness to his students. And as in Les Choristes, there are moments in Hababam Sinifi, Mahmut Hoca protects and saves his students against the management of the school.

In fact, all the students in Hababam Sinifi are as problematic as the students of Les Choristes. Well, I can hardly say there's a Morhange in Hababam Sinifi. Considering that the series has reached its seventh movie lately, there ARE Morhange's in every each of one. Every movie in the series sees a single character growing mentally and changing his/her life compeletly.

There are lots of Pépinot's in Hababam Sinifi but in Hababam Sinifi, their moving, apeealing and touching stories are not emphasized as they are in Les Choristes. The school in Hababam Sinifi is a boarding high school, consequently students' parents are mainly rich or at least not poor. But those were the days of chaos both econimacally and politically. It was very easy for a rich man to turn into a poor one (or vice versa:)). So, you can find occasional sad stories in the series.

I don't quite agree with those who think that this isn't the taste of a non-Turkish viewer. I must agree that it wasn't planned or filmed for international audience but it doesn't touch only to Turkish feelings but the feelings of our common human beings. It might have done as well as Les Choristes if it had a chance to be distributed to out of our borders. Les Choristes has been seen by over 8 millions of French in theaters only, and it did well (but not as good as in France) outside of France. I think Les Choristes is a brilliant movie. But I think some of my admiration to this movie takes it's source from Hababam Sinifi. A must seen yet an impossible to see.