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Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey The Erotik Turkish Cinema Mine Mutlu 1/4 Mine Mutlu and Ali Poyrazoğlu in a Turkish 'erotik'-comedy film classic Elma Şekeri (Candied Apple) Click! Thanks to minefilm and SPOTEK Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: 'Bad Girls' of the 1970s Turkish Cinema -- Mine Soley Yeşim Yükselen -- The Wicked Witch of West Istanbul Nur Ay -- 'Dirty Dancing' Diva, Part 2 Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc? Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child Spunky Karaca Kaan -- What made her so damn mad?! Karaca Kaan, True Confessions Karaca Kaan Center Fatma Girik, Seksi Tomboy filmstar-center Müjde Ar's steamy film-career... achievement and controversy What really happened in bed between Müjde Ar and Nur Sürer in Dul Bir Kadın? Müjde Ar Center Erotik Angel? -- Melek Görgün Sizzling transsexual -- Emel Aydan Erotik 'Second Banana' -- Gülden Gül Deep-inside Dilber Ay White-Hot Real Blonde... the Ceyda Karahan Center Figen Han -- Fire down below... Arzu Okay -- brainy 'erotik' bombshell The Feri Cansel Story -- an erotik 'Beauty and the Beast' Zerrin Egeliler - (most of) everything you always wanted to know The Seyyal Taner Center The Seher Şeniz Center 'Erotik' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz in Arzu 'Erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar as the Sekreter The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages Turkish Male/Female Personal Names Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 2/4 Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Turkish 'erotik' Films History The Players -- Actress Mine Mutlu 1/4 The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu (1948-1990) Next: 'Erotik' Movie History: The Players -- Mine Mutlu, Part 2 Back: Alev Altın -- Part 2 Also: Turkish 'Erotik' Films History 101 In Turkish-language, Mine Mutlu's name is filled with a sense of glamour and joy. 'Mine' means 'something lustrous and graceful' and 'Mutlu' means 'happy and lucky'. Unfortunately, Mine Mutlu's real-life story was filled with disappointment and sorrow -- the story of an established legitimate actress who became associated with the Turkish 'erotik' films industry, and got trampled in the process. As social-commentator and erotik-film-historian Cihan Demirci149 says, "Mine Mutlu suffered a uniquely Turkish-style of tragedy (özgü alaturka bir trajedi) -- not found anywhere else in the world." Born in 1948, Mine Mutlu began acting in conventional Turkish films just before her 20th birthday in 1967, which was several years before the start of the 'Erotik' Film Era in Turkey. In total she appeared in 69 movies -- 54 of them were conventional, non-'erotik'. Mine Mutlu in Hancı (1969) -- one of many conventional films before she turned to erotika Click! Mine Mutlu provides all the inspiration that Ali Poyrazoğlu needs in this scene from Elma Şekeri Click! Furthermore, of the 15 'erotik' films in which she did appear, most were soft-core 'sex-farce' films like Elma Şekeri (Candied Apple), the story of a hen-pecked husband (Ali Poyrazoğlu) who finally finds true-love (Mine Mutlu) while escaping the clutches of his overbearing wife (Sevda Karaca) and his flighty sexpot lover (Senar Seven)... See illustrations, at left and at upper right. Click following for film clip of Mine Mutlu and Ali Poyrazoğlu from Elma Şekeri in which Ali 'introduces' Mine to his bedazzled male friends -- a 2.9MB Windows Media Video file (WMV). In those sex-farce films, Mine Mutlu played opposite comedic male actors like Ali Poyrazoğlu, Aydemir Akbaş, Sermet Serdengeçti, and Orçun Sonat who made the audiences laugh -- but she sometimes seemed distant, somewhat aloof, not identifying with the other players (nor with her audience)... a melancholy figure. Her wistful appearance seemed to say that she wasn't actually a participant in these films, wasn't actually doing these things, wasn't like the other female actors... Mine Mutlu's first conventional film in 1967 was Bana Kurşun Işlemez (Bullets can't hurt me). And although she only acted in a minor role, the film is noteworthy because it was directed by Yılmaz Güney, one of Turkey's most controversial film personalities. Yılmaz Güney (a Turk of Kurdish origion, real name Pütün, born in Adana 1937) His prolific career spanned the 30 years between 1953 and 1983. But after 1972, Güney spent much of his remaining life in prison -- first for 'subversive activities', then later, for murder! While behind bars, Yılmaz Güney wrote screenplays -- which friends on the outside nurtured through to film production. During his career he acted in 114 films, directed 26, produced 15, and wrote screenplays for 64 more -- while collecting national and international awards in each of those categories. He died in exile in Paris of stomach cancer in 1984, after escaping Turkish prison in 1981. Mine Mutlu and Arzu Okay provided the heat in Oksal Pekmezoğlu's 1974 sex-farce Olmaz Böyle Şey Click for enlargement! Mine Mutlu's 2nd conventional film (also in 1967) was Pranga Mahkumu (Shackled Court) -- and after 'Pranga' she acted in more than 40 other conventional movies before agreeing to take on her first full-fledged 'erotik' film role, in the sex-farce Beş Tavuk Bir Horoz (Five Chickens, One Rooster) in 1974. Next: 'Erotik' Movie History: The Players -- Mine Mutlu, Part 2 Back: Alev Altın -- Part 2 Also: Turkish 'Erotik' Films History 101 Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: 'Bad Girls' of the 1970s Turkish Cinema -- Mine Soley Yeşim Yükselen -- The Wicked Witch of West Istanbul Nur Ay -- 'Dirty Dancing' Diva, Part 2 Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc? Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child Spunky Karaca Kaan -- What made her so damn mad?! Karaca Kaan, True Confessions Karaca Kaan Center Fatma Girik, Seksi Tomboy filmstar-center Müjde Ar's steamy film-career... achievement and controversy What really happened in bed between Müjde Ar and Nur Sürer in Dul Bir Kadın? Müjde Ar Center 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 2/4 Erotik Angel? -- Melek Görgün Sizzling transsexual -- Emel Aydan Erotik 'Second Banana' -- Gülden Gül Deep-inside Dilber Ay White-Hot Real Blonde... the Ceyda Karahan Center Figen Han -- Fire down below... Arzu Okay -- brainy 'erotik' bombshell The Feri Cansel Story -- an erotik 'Beauty and the Beast' Zerrin Egeliler - (most of) everything you always wanted to know The Seyyal Taner Center The Seher Şeniz Center 'Erotik' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz in Arzu 'Erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar as the Sekreter The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time #5 Selvi Boylum Al Kazmalım (The Girl in the Red Scarf) Related: The First All-Turkish 'Gloves-Off Erotik' Movie -- 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' (1979) Plus: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Leading Female/Male Movie Actors Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The 'Supporting' Cast and the 'Ed Wood-style' Director The Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog -- for English Speakers Turkish Kinsey Report Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Post your comment...» We are extremely grateful to the following movie critics and film historians for the Turkish-language source movie-material on which some of this page is based: Cihan Demirci, Metin Demirhan, Giovanni Scognamillo, and Ağah Özgüç. We also extend special thanks to the movie and film content providers and webmasters at the following Turkish websites: Sinematurk.com, Telifhaklari.gov.tr, Turksinemasi.net, FotoAjans.com, Superresim.com, and Kimkimdir.gen.tr

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