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The Movie History of Turkey Mine Mutlu a short while before she passed away -- in a family photo with son Çağkan and daughter Büşra c. 1989 Click for enlargement! Thanks to Sedef Şenkal and Merkez Gazete Dergi, Basım Yayıncılık Sanayı ve Ticaret 1998 Also: To 'Arzu'... and 'seksi' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz To 'Sekreter'... and 'erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time #5 Selvi Boylum Al Kazmalım (The Girl in the Red Scarf) 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages 'Erotik' Films History The Players -- Mine Mutlu 4/4 The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu (1948-1990) Mine Mutlu never felt comfortable singing in front of audiences who knew her as Mine 'Butlu' and she floundered -- both professionally and personally. She tried marriage in 1978, but it only lasted a year. That led to a live-in arrangement with Ünal Çulha, which produced two children -- a son, Çağkan, in 1985 and a daughter, Büşra, in 1988. These days Mine Mutlu's son Çağkan Çulha woos a 'Beginner Witch'. Thanks to Pınar Yılmazerler and Hürriyet Gazetesi 7 May 2007 In 2006, Mine Hanım's son, Çağkan Çulha, began his own show business career in a starring role on the top-rated Acemi Cadı (Beginner Witch), a teenage TV sitcom somewhat reminiscent of the 'Tabitha' character in the popular TV sitcom Bewitched (starring Elizabeth Montgomery) -- which aired so successfully on US Television during the 1964-1972 seasons. It's reported that the hardworking young Çağkan landed the part on his own, without help from anyone. In this TV clip (a 1.9MB Windows Media Video .WMV file), Çağkan 'bills and coos' with his TV girlfriend, the ingenue Merve Boluğur, who plays the lead in 'Beginner Witch'. Shortly after her daughter's birth in 1988, Mine Hanım was diagnosed with breast cancer and after struggling bravely but vainly against the disease, she passed away on 30 September 1990 at the age of 42 -- barely able to survive her first movie director Yilmaz Guney (d. 1984, of stomach cancer) and one of her first 'erotik'-film co-stars Alev Altın (d. 1987, also of breast cancer), by a few problematic years. Ali Poyrazoğlu is Mine Mutlu's Svengali until he falls for her... hook, line, and sinker in Elma Şekeri Click for enlargement! Upon learning of her death, her friend and collaborator Ali Poyrazoğlu (by then a main-stream actor, director, producer) had this simple poignant statement to make about Mine Mutlu. "We acted in several films together, some of which I directed. Now tell me, what was Mine Mutlu's sin?" In this film clip from 'Elma Şekeri' (a 5.9MB Windows Media Video .WMV file), the Svengali-like Ali comic-cruelly exploits his appreciative protégé Mine, whom he has 'made over' from a poor lowly village girl. But, as the clip ends we see that his selfish ways are softening. Recent: To 'Arzu'... and 'seksi' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz To 'Sekreter'... and 'erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar Still The Best Little Game Show In Turkey The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time #5 Selvi Boylum Al Kazmalım (The Girl in the Red Scarf) Next: 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 Back: The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 3/4 Back: Alev Altın 1/2 -- The Turkish Traci Lords? Related: The Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog -- for English Speakers The Rise of Turkey's 'Erotik' Films Industry The Birth and Growth of the Turkish Films Industry Turkish Kinsey Report #1 - Turkey opens up about its seks Turkish Kinsey Report #2 - Did they hear it through the grapevine? Turkish Kinsey Report #3 - Was it good for you? Turkish Kinsey Report #4 - The first time, by age group... Turkish Kinsey Report #5 - Who's gotta have it? He? Or she? Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik 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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