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The Movie History of Turkey Young Zerrin Doğan played the female lead in Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (A Woman Like That) The first 'gloves off ' Turkish 'Erotik' Movie with Levent Günsel as her leading man in 1979 Click for enlargement! Thanks to HepsiBurada.com Also: 'Erotik' Movies Database -- Zerrin Egeliler in Yedi Kocalı 'Erotik' Movies -- The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 1/4 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 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages Turkish Personal Names - Male Turkish Personal Names - Female Turkish Personal Names - in general 'Erotik' Films History The First All-Turkish No-Holds-Barred 'Erotik' Film -- Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (A Woman Like That) 1/5 Movie-making Turks haven't been shy about including earthy subjects or fleshy cinematic scenes in their films since as far back as the 1950's. That's when street-walkers, scantily clad harem girls, topless women, soapy semi-exposed bathers, belly dancers, and uninvited love-making first began appearing in conventional Turkish moving-pictures. Suzan Avcı Click large! The 'intensity' of the action in conventional Turkish films escalated in the 1960's when 'lite erotik' opposite-sex scenes began to appear. And in Atıf Yılmaz's otherwise conventional İki Gemi Yanyana (Two Ships Side by Side), the first gay female Turkish movie scene -- a scorcher for its day, in which Suzan Avcı (Real name: Suzan Bizavcı) and Sevda Nur smooched on camera -- gave Turkish movie goers a shock when it was first shown in 1963. Sevda Nur Click large! Female cinematic 'erotik'-symbols during the 'Age of the Turkish Vamp' (1950s - 1960s) included Neriman Köksal (who made 177 films between 1950 to 1995), Funda Yanar (seen here as a dancer in Büyük Şehrin Kanunu, 1965) and Leyla Sayar -- who, in 1960, performed a memorably bold (we are told) strip-tease act in Atıf Yılmaz's Ölüm Perdesi... But Leyla Hanım drew the line in 1972, when she realized the direction in which the seks filmleri furyası ('erotik' films boom) would lead her. And after a short stint as a night club dancer, she quit the entertainment business altogether... opting instead for a simple, pious life. Funda Yanar shakes some Turkish booty in Cavit Yörüklü's Büyük Şehrin Kanunu (1965) Click for enlargement! Thanks to Erotik Türk Sinemasi by Giovanni Scognamillo and Metin Demirhan Bacchanalian scene from a 1960's Neriman Köksal movie Click for enlargement! But it wasn't until 1972 that Parcalı Behçet -- which was made in a desperate attempt by film-makers to woo audiences away from their newly acquired home TVs and back to near-empty movie theaters seats -- became the first Turkish film to be produced exclusively for purposes of 'erotik'ism. And when Parcalı Behçet attracted an overflow opening-day crowd of 7,000 to its initial showing in Konya (Mevlana's hometown, in the heart of Turkish religious conservatism) Turkish film-makers took notice (and heart). Subsequently, when the film enjoyed a 6-month run, in two side-by-side theaters smack in middle of that fair city, well, film-makers believed they'd found the holy grail. And from that time through to 1979, the production of 'erotik' Turkish films mushroomed. Movie poster for 'Parçala Behçet' (1972) Click for enlargement! Thanks to Haluk Özözlü http://www.sihirlitur.com/ Leyla Sayar in an alluring pose from the 'Age of the Turkish Vamp' Click for enlargement! The three most popular genres for legally produced Turkish 'erotik' films between 1972 and 1978 were Comedy, Adventure, and Murder Mystery. And they all had a not-very-well-kept secret about them in common. The secret was that Turkish actors and actresses didn't perform 'the act' for real. They only simulated it.. Men wore underwear (briefs) and camera angles were chosen to cover up the fact -- sometimes without much success. There are lots of flashes of men's white briefs in the Turkish 'erotik' films made between 1972 and 1978! Any for-real sex that appeared in these films was performed by foreigners in parcalar (movie film clips) that were inserted at predictable intervals of the Turkish film. Sometimes these parcalar were made specifically for the Turkish film in which they appeared, but in most cases they were just crude cuts of foreign films -- often entirely inappropriate (in focus or coloring) to the Turkish film. That sort of 'erotik' film-making subterfuge came to a screeching halt in 1979, when the first all-Turkish cast was filmed in the first-ever legally produced and distributed 'Gloves-Off Erotik' Turkish film, Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (A Woman Like That) -- directed by Naki Yurter, starring Zerrin Doğan and Levent Günsel in the leading female and male roles. Öyle Bir Kadın Ki set the Turkish cinematic industry on fire -- having even greater influence on immediate Turkish movie-making directions than Deep Throat had on American movie-making in 1972. 'Kadın' knocked the financial stuffing out of its soft-core 'erotik' (and conventional) rivals, and it had a profound effect (for a while) on the production of almost every Turkish film ('erotik' or conventional) that followed -- opening a new chapter in the 'History of the Turkish Cinema'...

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: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Leading Female/Male Movie Actors Plus: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The 'Supporting' Cast and the 'Ed Wood-style' Director Also: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Plot, Illustrated Back: The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 4/4 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

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