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Onsuz Olamam (I'm Nothing Without Him/Her/It) written and directed by Savaş Eşici in 1978. Two 'close' sisters (Zerrin Egeliler and Müge Güler) are in love with the same man (Salih Güney).  Click! VCD Movie Cover --
Yalnız Kalp / Uçurum (Lonely Heart / I Fly Like The Wind) written and directed by Yücel Uçanoğlu in 1978. The story of two young men (Hadi Çaman and Bülent Kaybaş) and a young woman (Zerrin Egeliler) discovering seks for the first time.  Click! Movie Photo --
Egeliler grieves at the funeral for her believed-to-be-dead first husband in Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) 1979  Click! Movie Photo --
'Mother' Mürvet Sim pressures 'lawyer' Kamer Sadık at graveside to hurry-up the 'Reading of the Will' in Painted Jezebel 1979  Click!
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The Portrait of Hadi Çaman... Hadi speaks from the grave imploring his best friend Bülent Kayabaş to marry Hadi's poor widow Zerrin Egeliler in Painted Jezebel  Click! |
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Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) Directed by Ülkü Erakalın in 1979 -- starring Zerrin Egeliler, Hadi Çaman, Bülent Kayabaş, and Mürvet Sim (who is not the blonde on the cover)  Click! |
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Movie Comedy for Grownups
In Part 6 of this Zerrin Egeliler movie chronicle, we noted that her seks comedy film Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) is based on a simple premise... that it's perfectly all right for a wife to remarry a second husband after the death of her first husband. But, what if, at the prompting of her pushy mother, the new widow goes ahead a little too hastily with remarriage. And then... what happens when the report of her first husband's death turns out to be false -- having been based on bad info? What does a merry Turkish widow want with hubby #2 if hubby #1 is still alive and kicking? Well, in such a case, you've got the makin's for a Turkish 'erotik' comedy-movie stew...
Basic Movie Facts Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) -- 1979
The Movie's Plot The movie's opening-scene is filmed in the 700 year-old Karacaahmet Cemetery of Üsküdar, on Istanbul's Anatololian (Asian) side. [See atı alan Üsküdar'ı geçti.] Friends and family have gathered there for the funeral of Zerrin Egeliler's reportedly-deceased husband Hadi Caman. Several friends (including Bülent Kayabaş) offer condolances to the grieving-widow Zerrin and her mother (Mürvet Sim), by expressing the simple but heartfelt 'Başınız sağ olsun' Turkish condolence-phrase. Note: As a rule, Muslims bury the 'departed' the next day after a person 'departs'. (See The Muslim Way of Death.) Exceptions to his rule arise if distant family members need more time to return for the burial ceremony -- or if the departed is a celebrity/VIP for which burial ceremony preparations can be quite extensive. Still, in 'ordinary' circumstances, next-day funerals are carried out on-schedule, even if there are no physical-remains to bury (as in the case of an airplane lost at sea, for example). Even in the midst of condolance-giving at the graveside, Zerrin's mother begins to pester her daughter on the subject of remarriage, reckoning that Bülent Kayabaş would make a fine new son-in-law. But Zerrin admonishes her mother and respectfully weeps for her 'deceased' husband. Undaunted, Zerrin's mother sneakily pressures the family lawyer (Kamer Baba), who is also among the mourners at the cemetary, (see movie photo, upper left) to officially 'Read the Will' the next day at 2 in the afternoon at the family home. The appointed hour arrives, and, in the parlor of the family home, the lawyer assembles everyone mentioned in the will. They include Bülent Kayabaş, Zerrin Egeliler, and Zerrin's mother. (See movie-photo, upper left.) On the fireplace mantle, sits a life-sized photo-portrait of the presumably-deceased (Hadi Caman). But, as we soon learn, it's no ordinary portrait...It's a 3-dimensional picture with the power of movement and speech (see movie-photo at upper left) -- employed by the film's director Erakalın as a cinematic 'device'. A device with the ability to influence the movie's plot and orchestrate the actions of the other actors! Oh my...
Seems we're in for a magical movie romp -- which we'll examine further in: Part 8 -- 'Painted Jezebel'... When dalliance is in flower, what's a girl to do? - with quite a revealing film clip -
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