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The Dilber Ay
of this series of articles is not to be confused with the portly arabesque singer of the same name Dilber Ay, who appeared in the 2006 Turkish movie hit, Beynelmilel. ![]() Click! 'Our' Dilber Ay gained everlasting fame in movies like these... Dilber Ay co-starred with
Behçet Nacar in Karpuzcu (Watermelon Man) directed by Yılmaz Atadeniz in 1979 -- based on Mr. Majestyk, Charles Bronson's 1974 classic. ![]() Click! Sevginin Bedeli
(The Equivalent Of Love) starring Dilber Ay, Emel Canser, Yılmaz Şahin, and Zafer Doğan -- directed by Naki Yurter in 1979. The story of a step-daughter (played by Dilber Ay as Kezban) who awakes to cinsellik, through fantasy. ![]() Click! |
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Dilber Ay played the female lead with
leading-man Kazım Kartal in Püsküllü Bela (A Peck Of Trouble) -- aka Dilberim Kıyma Bana (Make Mince-Meat Of Me, Beautiful) directed by Çetin İnanç in 1979. When Dilber Ay is the accidental eyewitness to a double homocide, her world is turned upside down. ![]() Click! |
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As esteemed Turkish movie historian Agâh Özgüç declared in Part 1 of this article-series, Dilber Ay's Takma Kafana (Don't Bother Yourself) contains "the most brazen seks orji scenes in the history of the Turkish cinema."148
And Özgüç wasn't just whistling Dixie in making that statement -- as you can tell from the following movie-stills from the film which have been carefully selected for the sake of propriety.
And, though some would argue that Dilber Ay's performance in Takma Kafana represents the peak of her on-screen cinsellik, others would insist that she reached that peak earlier, in Sevginin Bedeli (The Equivalent of Love).
Sevginin Bedeli (The Equivalent of Love) opens with a lusty floor-level love-making scene involving Emel Canser and Yılmaz Şahin that's reminiscent of the Billie Jo Spears country-music classic Blanket on the Ground...
That Billie Jo Spears-like opening scene is warm by anyone's erotik movie standards but, later the same day, when Emel Canser's stepdaughter Kezban (played by Dilber Ay) arrives from boarding school for summer vacation, things really catch fire -- and 'standards' go up in smoke. As we'll explain further in
The transition from timid ingenue to unrestrained grup seks participant is the subject of
Takma Kafana (Don't Bother Yourself) directed by Yavuz Figenli in 1979.
Dilber Ay makes the transition look awfully easy...
From the movie poster photo at left for Sevginin Bedeli (The Equivalent of Love)
you might think that the movie is a crime film --
starring (the always semi-nude) Dilber Ay and (the gun-toting) Bülent Kayabaş.
Nothing could be much further from the truth.
In fact, about the only truth the poster conveys is that, as always,
Dilber Ay appears 'in the altogether', in scene after provocative scene.
But, Sevginin Bedeli has nothing to do with crime;
it's a coming-of-age sexual-awakening film in which no one even gets a parking ticket.
And, no cast-member ever totes a gun, especially not Bülent Kayabaş...
who isn't even in the movie!
This example of untruth in advertising is a rather frequent occurrence in the
erotik Turkish cinema of the 1970s -- in which there was often only
a passing relationship between the movie poster and the film itself.
Erotik Turkish movie makers, it seems, were more interested in attracting an audience than in accurately conveying a movie's theme on its poster.
So, when it suited them, movie-makers ordered up posters whose sole purpose was
to get 'Turkish bums in seats'...
I know you love me like I am.
Just once more I wish you'd love me
On a blanket on the ground.


© Erotik Movie History of Turkey: Dilber Ay starred in Sokak Kızları, Püsküllü Bela, Ölüm Savaşı, Gece Yaşayan Kadın