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The Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies/Films Short Subjects, Documentaries, TV and Radio for English Speakers -- 'K' -- Ceyda Karahan (2nd from right) and her girlfriends get the better of Alev Sezer (bottom) in Kimin Eli Kimin Cebinde (In Whose Hand, In Whose Pocket), directed by Oksal Pekmezoğlu in 1977. Click! Thanks to Erotik Türk Sineması150 Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: Turkish Movies Catalog Index Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Teetotaling Turkish Flight Attendants want a passenger alcohol-ban Is the Drinking of Alcohol Forbidden by Koranic Decree? Turkish Airlines (THY) and the Non-Alcoholic Tissue-Towels Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child Fatma Girik, Seksi Tomboy filmstar-center Müjde Ar's steamy film-career... achievement and controversy The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey Turkish Male/Female Personal Names The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye Fast-working Turkish Diet -- with Alcohol included! For English-speakers who've always wanted to know more about Turkish Movies/Films, Short Subjects, Documentaries, TV and Radio -- but didn't know where to look. Movie/Film names and TV Program names (in both English and Turkish), stars of the Turkish cinema and TV (past and present), movie directors, producers, cameramen, screen writers, musicians, singers, dancers, et al -- not to mention plot summaries, movie trivia, and memorable on-screen dialogue all translated into English, of course... With full multimedia features including illustrations, voice recordings and video clips... If you don't find the names, terms, or phrases you need here... click to let us know and we'll add them. Site visitors may navigate the Turkish Movie catalog using the 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index Page. Abbreviations: LMA - Lead Male Actor/Player, LFA - Lead Female Actor/Player, MA - Male Actor/Player, FA - Female Actor/Player, MD - Main Director, P - Producer(s), C - Cinematographer, W - Screenplay Writer, Dan - Dancer, M- Music by, AD - Art Director, PC - Production Company Name of Person, Place, Thing Details About Descriptions, examples, supplements, and explanations K     Karaca Kaan Karaca Kaan (born Istanbul in 1958) was an erotik film star predominately -- though she did make one conventional film (in 1974) at the beginning of her documented-47-film career and one at the end (in 1982). Note: Kaan's own count of her films differs substantially from the documented count. "I made nearly 200 films, acted the lead role in 60 of them," she says. Karaca Kaan was a loving village-wife in Fırçana Bayıldım Boyacı (I Faint For Your Brush, Shoeshine Man) 1978 Click! Karaca Kaan, True Confessions What made Karaca Kaan so damn mad?! Karaca Kaan reveals in Kadınlar Hamamı (Women's Turkish Bath) 1978 Click! Thanks to Erotik Türk Sineması150 Karaca Kaan Filmography: Kaan's Conventional Films -- Kelepçe (Handcuffs) starred Cüneyt Arkın, Kazım Kartal, and Karaca Kaan -- directed by Çetin 'Çiko' İnanç in 1982 Kaan's Erotik Films -- Fırçana Bayıldım Boyacı (Your Brush Makes Me Faint, Shoeshine Man) starred Hadi Çaman, Melek Görgün, and Karaca Kaan -- directed by Çetin 'Çiko' İnanç in 1982 More coming... Kara Murat Denizler Hakimi (Kara Murat, Ruler of the Ottoman Seas) Tremendously fun-to-watch, this historical-fiction film (made in 1977) stars Cüneyt Arkın as 'Kara Murat' -- in one of 10 films in the 'Kara Murat' series made between 1972-1978, all with cult-classic status. Movie Length/Duration: 69 minutes. Click for enlargement! Thanks to the ERLER FILM website for the poster. Kara Murat (Cüneyt Arkın) receives the Sultan's Orders Click large! The pirate's heart-throb Maria (Sevda Karaca) Click large! Pirate Vargos (Hüseyin Baradan) is shamed by pirate girl Maria Click large! The Black Pirate accepts 'Antonio' into the pirate corps Click large! LMA - Cüneyt Arkın [née: Fahrettin Cüretlibatur] (as Black Murat); MA - Peter Fabian [née: Piero Fabiani] (as The Black Pirate, complete with a left-hand hook); LFA - Sevda Karaca (as the pirate girl, Maria); MA - Kayhan Yıldızoğlu (as Prince Nikolas of Chios); MA - Hüseyin Baradan (as pirate Vargos); MA - Turgut Özatay (as Yunus Paşa); MD - Natuk Baytan; W - Rahmi Turan (Rahmi Muratoğlu), Fuat Özlüer, Erdoğan Tünas The Black Pirate (Peter Fabian) Click large! Vargos pillaging a Turkish village Click large! Maria with a red dress, red dress, red dress... Maria with a red dress on! Click large! Kara Korsan captures and tortures Kara Murat. Click large! Yunus Paşa congratulates Murat on a job well done! Click large! Plot Summary: In the Ottoman Age of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, the Sultan's Admiral is captured by pirates during the Admiral's return from a tax-collecting mission. The Sultan charges Kara Murat with saving the Admiral, his crew, and the booty. On the way to successfully fulfilling his mission, Kara Murat meets the enchanting pirate girl, Maria... Plot Details: It's the Ottoman Age of Sultan Mehmed/Mehmet II (aka Mehmet, The Conqueror or Fatih Mehmet or Sultan Fatih) circa 1460... The Sultan (who not only claims domain over Ottoman lands but also the islands of the Aegean Sea) has sent his Fleet Admiral Yunus Paşa (played by Turgut Özatay) on a 'tax collecting' mission to the islands. Having completed his job, Yunus Paşa heads for home, but his ship (now filled to the brim with loot, spoils, and booty for the Sultan) is hijacked and robbed of all its treasure by Kara Korsan (The Black Pirate, played by Peter Fabian) and his men. [The Black Pirate's patron is Prince Nikolas (Kayhan Yıldızoğlu), ruler of the Aegean Island of Chios, who resents paying tribute to Sultan Mehmet -- and who gives Kara Korsan's pirates free reign to pillage and plunder Turkish villages on his island.] When Sultan Mehmet gets the hijack news, he goes ballistic -- and charges Kara Murat (Cüneyt Arkın) with triple tasks to save his Admiral (and crew) from captivity, bring all the booty back, and ease the plight of the Turkish villagers on Chios. In a classic Ottoman ruse, Kara Murat (posing as 'Antonio', a Spanish brigand) lets himself be imprisoned in the same Ottoman prison cell with 4 of the Black Pirate's men, where he gains their trust. After a fake pre-arranged escape with his prisoner-pals, Kara Murat gets them drunk, learns the whereabouts of the Black Pirate's secret location, and returns with the drunkards to the pirate's den. He is challenged at the entrance by Maria (Sevda Karaca), a female pirate with dangerous appeal... (Another pirate, Vargos (Hüseyin Baradan), covets Maria for himself.) Continuing the original ruse, Kara Murat as Antonio is allowed by Kara Korsan to join the band of pirates -- after the 4 freed (and now sober) pirates vouch for him as their saviour. Kara Murat finds Yunus Paşa and his crew enchained -- now galley slaves on one of Kara Korsan's galley ships -- but our hero has to bide his time. Kara Murat proves his mettle in battle when Kara Korsan's single galley routes 3 enemy ships -- and, in the aftermath of the fighting, Maria's love-interest in Murat is seen to blossom. That night at the victory celebration, The Black Pirate takes Kara Murat as his 'right hand man' -- and Maria shows up in a bright red dress in his honor. Vargos can't take any more humiliation, challenges Murat -- and in the sword play that follows Murat makes a fool of Vargos, much to everyone's drunken delight. Murat slips away from the celebration with Maria -- and rows her back to the galley ship, where he declares his love for her. Then, like a true gentleman, he escorts her to her cabin, and leaves her there in a swoon. He's got work to do...He overpowers the single on-duty guard and releases Yunus Paşa and his crew. Together they surprise/capture the drunken Kara Korsan and his crew upon their return to the galley. The tables turned, Kara Korsan and his crew are placed in chains and made to do the rowing of the galley. Maria is torn between her love for Murat and her feeling that she has been deceived by him. And she is unable to kill him (with a hidden knife) when, in private, he embraces her -- and again declares his love. In a state of confused loyalties, she jumps ship, swims to shore, and informs on Murat to Prince Nikolas. Nikolas sends his naval captain (with Maria by his side) in pursuit of Kara Murat in a convoy of 4 galleons. Outnumbered and out-gunned, Murat wants to make a run for it the rest of the way to Istanbul...But Yunus Paşa's Ottoman pride won't permit it. And when Nikolas' convoy easily defeats the single galley... Murat, the Ottoman crew, and Yunus Paşa are all taken prisoner. The Black Pirate and his crew are released -- and on the voyage back to Chios, the pirates take turns torturing Murat. Maria (realizing the error of her ways) allows Kara Murat to escape in the dead of night, but sends him over the side with a curse... "I hate you. Go now -- I never want to see your face again." Vargos, observing this poignant scene from the shadows, runs to Kara Korsan and informs him of Murat's escape and of Maria's part in it. Kara Korsan takes her into custody, tying her to the mast in Murat's place. Meanwhile, Kara Murat makes it to shore after a long swim, finds his way to an Ottoman ally who provides Murat with a team of mercenaries and a ship. They return to Chios and, in the dark of night, they recapture the galley (with Maria still strapped to the mast). They release Maria and Yunus Paşa's crew again, but Yunus Paşa, himself, is not among the prisoners...having been imprisoned again, in the Prince's castle dungeon. Maria leads Kara Murat back to Prince Nikolas' castle where a celebratory ball is underway. Prince Nikolas proclaims The Black Pirate his new 'Fleet Admiral' to loud cheers from guests at the ball. Meanwhile, below floors in the dungeon, Murat and Maria find and release Yunus Paşa again. Murat sends Yunus Paşa and Maria back to the galley to ready it for sailing and await his return. Murat singlehandedly destroys the Prince's fleet in the harbor (by swimming ship to ship and setting off explosives) -- and kills both Vargos (in a pitifully short sword fight) and Kara Korsan (burying him up to his neck in the seaside sand to drown with the incoming tide, in the same manner as Kara Korsan has executed Turkish villagers earlier in the film). In the final scenes, Murat swims out to the waiting galley ship, receives congratulations from Yunus Paşa, and sets sail for Istanbul. Under heavy but ineffective cannon fire from Nikolas's castle, Murat (with Maria at his side), Yunus Paşa, and his crew all escape unscathed in the galley (which somehow transforms into a galleon) into the sunset -- with the booty! The final scenes from the 1977 cult-classic, 'Black Murat, Ruler of the Ottoman Seas'... The film-clip (with thanks to the Erler Films website) is a 1.9MB Windows Media Video (.WMV) file... Also see Cüneyt Arkın in: Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves the World) 1982 Soysuzlar (The Degenerates) 1977 Ceyda Karahan Ceyda Karahan, born in 1953, was a crossover film-star (from conventional to erotik films) whose career spanned the years 1971 to 1977 -- during which Karahan appeared in 60 films. White-Hot Real Blonde Ceyda Karahan -- exotic 'real blonde' in Kayıkçının Küreği (The Oarsman's Paddle) 1976 Click! Ceyda Karahan -- and Ali Poyrazoğlu on the movie cover of Kayıkçının Küreği (The Oarsman's Paddle) 1976 Click! Ceyda Karahan's Filmography: Conventional Films -- Keloğlan Ve Yedi Cüceler (Bald Boy and the Seven Dwarfs) 1971 Erotik Films -- Kimin Eli Kimin Cebinde (In Whose Hand, In Whose Pocket) 1977 -- see movie scene photo at page-top, right Kayıkçının Küreği (The Oarsman's Paddle) 1976 -- starred Ceyda Karahan (as a köylü kızı), Ali Poyrazoğlu (as Lüfer Ali), Emel Aydan, and Romina Terry (as Eleni) -- and other popular film-stars of that era. Ceyda Karahan feels coerced to reveal herself in Kayıkçının Küreği (The Oarsman's Paddle) 1976 Click! In this film clip [a .5 MB Windows Media Video (.WMV) file], Ceyda Karahan goes overboard for Ali Poyrazoğlu's paddle... until something makes her sleepy. Civciv Çıkacak Kuş Çıkacak -- (Baby Chick Will Emerge To Become A Full Grown Bird) 1975. The film's main stars were Mine Mutlu and leading man Ünsal Emre. Alev Altın (in a secondary role) played a nightclub singer, who occasionally stripped for special paying customers. And, Ceyda Karahan appeared as a curvaceous miscreant who kept showing up in hot-spots... as in this 1.6 MB Windows Media Video (.WMV) film clip from the movie -- in which Ünsal Emre coins the film's famous title-name... with Ceyda Karahan's full cooperation. Kazım Kartal Kazım Kartal in late Movies/TV career Click for enlargement! Thanks to Kimkimdir.gen.tr The Caravansaray Keeper's Daughter aka The Inkeeper's Daughter Click large! Thanks to Sinematurk.com A prolific Turkish actor of 326 films/movies between 1963 and 2003 -- with two screen writing credits. Began his movie career in 1963 in a production of Hancının Kızı (The Caravansaray Keeper's Daughter aka The Innkeeper's Daughter). After 1963 he acted in upwards of 325 mostly conventional films (though he is well-remembered for his 'erotik' film roles too) -- in large and small roles alike. He died 13 August 2003 at the age of 67. In late career, he found work in TV serials -- the last of which was a starring role in TGRT's production of Kirve. (A 'Kirve' is a kind of godfather at a circumcision ceremony -- who often takes the poor young victim on his lap during the operation, whispering 'encouraging' words until the deed is done.) See also: O Benim Kadındı Enişte Sibel Kekilli Former Adult Film Star, now award-winning Legitimate Film Actress Born of Turkish parents on 16 June 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany. Experience pays... Between takes at her old job Click! Sibel Kekilli and Birol Ünel are running against the wind in Duvara Karşı (Head-On) 2004 Click! Click! Click! Click! Sibel Kekilli gets to shakin' in Duvarı Karşı Click! Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc? Sibel Kekilli played the leading-role in Director Fatih Akın's Duvara Karşı (Head-On) which won the Golden Bear Award at the 54th Berlin Film Festival (2004). After the award was announced, it was learned that the 23-year-old had a previous film 'career' at Magma -- a porn film studio. Magma's Managing Director, Klaus Goldberg, explained that Kekilli had learned her acting skills during her 6 film career at Magma -- and it had paid off for her in Duvara Karşı (Head-On) in which she played in several nude scenes. And he added, "Kekilli was often bored during lulls on the set. The only time she perked up was during filming. She took a lot of pleasure in doing her job." Kekilli is seen at left on the front page of the German newspaper, Bild -- which broke the story. When questioned, Kekilli confirmed the truth of the Bild exposè, adding, "But, that's in the past. For me, winning the Golden Bear Award is the most important thing." Death Threat... But these revelations didn't sit well the relatives back home in Turkey... Sibel Kekilli 'Honor' Death Threat Click! Thanks to Gözcü Gasetesi 3 March 2004 who, according to the ancient but still-extant Anatolian 'honor code', planned a namus cinayeti for her. Two-faced Male Viewing-Public... This threat on Kekilli's life was no joke, dear readers -- and, we think what Turkish film historian Cihan Demirci149 had to say on the subject is of much interest... On the one hand, we watch Sibel Kekilli's pornographic films like salivating wolves. On the other, we want to bring Kekilli to heel -- to make her pay for her 'sexual deviance'. Even a lot of us want to lynch her. But throughout her death-threat ordeal, Kekilli has held on tightly to her Golden Bear award-winning performance, weathering the storm of her critics. I read Kekilli's interview and she made it clear that, "I didn't naively make these [pornographic] films. I made them quite serious-mindedly. Afterwards, I saved myself from falling into an abyss. I knew what I was doing every step of the way." Demirci continues...Perhaps Kekilli wasn't a pornographic actress at all. Perhaps she was a symbol -- protesting against a [male-dominated Anatolian] 'society' that still turns a blind eye to the rape of its young girls by family members and family friends. A society of brothers, fathers, and uncles who beat them if they don't hide the traces of the rapes...even kills them. All in the name of 'honor'. Sibel Kekilli Filmography: Kekilli's Mixed-Language Conventional Films -- Fay Grim 2006, Winterreise (Winter Journey) 2006, Eve Dönüş (Home Coming) 2006, Son Tren (German Title: Der Letzte Zug; English Title: The Last Train) 2006, Duvara Karşı (German Title: Gegen die Wand; English Title: Head-On) 2004 Kekilli's All-German Erotik XXX Films -- Tierisches Teenie-Reiten (2002) as Dilara, Casa Rosso aka Casa Rosso Amsterdam (2002) as Dilara, Euro Mädchen - Amateure intim 11 (2002) as Dilara, Auf frischer Tat ertappt! (2002) as Kim, Ein Sommertagstraum aka Sommertraum [German Pay-TV title] (2002) as Sarah, Süsse Teeny-Träume (2002) as Dilara, Die Megageile Küken-Farm (2002) as Dilara, Die Verfickte Praxis (2002) as Dilara, Hotel Fickmichgut (2002) as Dilara, Lollipops 16 (2002), Teeny Exzesse 68 - Kesse Bienen (2002) as Sybel, 2002 wilde Sex-Nächte (2002) as Dilara, Junge Debütantinnen 19: Deutsche Debütantinnen - Hart & herzlich (2001) as Kim Sibel Kekilli Conventional Film Plots: Duvara Karşı (German Title: Gegen die Wand; English Title: Head-On) with dialogue predominately in Turkish -- but also in German, and English in that order... starring Sibel Kekilli (as Sibel Güner), Birol Ünel (as Cahit Tomruk), and Meltem Cumbul (as Sibel's cousin Selma) -- written and directed by Fatih Akın in 2004. For very different reasons, the two main characters are suicidal when the film opens in Hamburg (after a Turkish-musical story-telling prelude performed along the Bosporus). Musical Story-telling Prelude Duvara Karşi (Head-On) withSibel Kekilli and Birol Ünel Click! Sibel Güner (played by Sibel Kekilli) is the daughter of transplanted Turkish parents from Zonguldak, who insist on imposing old-world ways on the vibrant young woman. When she breaks under the strain and attempts suicide (more than once), she ends up in the same sanitarium as Cahit Tomruk (a Turkish transplant from Mersin played by Birol Ünel). Cahit found his way there after purposely smashing his car at high speed, head-on into a solid cement wall -- in an attempt to kill himself after the loss of his beloved wife and his subsequent descent into alcohol and drug addition...Sibel (Kekilli) sees Cahit (Ünel) for the first time in the psychiatrist's waiting room at the sanitarium, likes what she sees, and immediately begins to focus on marrying him as the means of escaping her oppressive family. But, as she explains to Ünel, there'd be no need for sex between them... the marriage would be completely open, with each partner free to indulge his/her passions outside. At first, he wants no part of Kekilli's 'crazy' ideas, but she persists...They'd be like room-mates, she says, and she'd work to cover all their living expenses. After several days, she persuades him to jump the sanitarium wall to join her for a late night beer in a local bar. She proposes marriage again, but he refuses again -- and in an explosion of despair, she smashes his beer bottle and slashes her wrist right there on the spot. That desperate act sets in motion a gradual change of heart in Ünel -- and, after a fake courtship to satisfy her family's conservative ways, the couple 'settle in' to a very unorthodox marriage. Slowly, Ünel begins to appreciate Kekilli's company (and vice versa). But 'a deal is a deal' and they each go separate ways in satisfying carnal needs. Then one night, Kekilli entices Ünel to join her for a boogie. In this film clip (a 2.4 MB Windows Media Video [.WMV] file), Kekilli begins by playfully teasing and taunting Ünel about her good looks and nice body. Then, jump-dancing and chanting 'Punk Is Not Dead!' in unison to the infectious beat of Temple of Love (by Sisters of Mercy Touched by the Hands of Ofra Haza), Sibel Kekilli Brazen Pickup Click! the couple push off to a night club. But when Kekilli brazenly picks up a night-club patron, and quickly arranges to meet him outside for a 'quickie' (announcing her intention to Ünel on her way out), we see the first signs of Ünel's growing feelings for her. Ray Charles had Sibel Kekilli in mind when he wrote... 'She knows how to shake that thing!' Click! Click! Click! Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: Turkish Movies Catalog Index Emel Canser -- Liberated and Licentious Lady Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme Teetotaling Turkish Flight Attendants want a passenger alcohol-ban Is the Drinking of Alcohol Forbidden by Koranic Decree? Turkish Airlines (THY) and the Non-Alcoholic Tissue-Towels Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child Fatma Girik, Seksi Tomboy filmstar-center Müjde Ar's steamy film-career... achievement and controversy The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey Turkish Male/Female Personal Names The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Plot, Illustrated To 'Arzu'... and 'seksi' movie clips of young Banu Alkan & Songül Gündüz Related: Still The Best Little Game Show In Turkey TV Bloopers -- Mehmet Ali Erbil Two Turkish Guys who rack up the TV Ratings Alev Altın -- The Turkish Traci Lords? The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' -- What led up to it? The Rise of Turkey's Erotic Films Industry The Birth and Growth of the Turkish Films Industry Language-learning pages: How To Learn Basic Turkish -- A Practical Philosophy for beginners (Found in the 'Introduction to The Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies'.) Why Off-color language is important too... Translating Turkish, the basics Essential Turkish Vocabulary Pretty Good Pronoun Charts Turkish Verbs Essential Idioms, Index Essential Suffixes, Index Sentence Structure, Standard Turkish Pronunciation Turkish Accenting Numbers in Turkish Turkish Adjective Heaven -- or hell? Other Turkish Language Difficulties Unrelated fun: My First Time The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls Fast-working Turkish Diet -- with Alcohol included! Turkish Cartooning, cartoonists, and funny cartoons Discount Phrase for the Turkish Bazaar Turkish Terms Of Endearment Association Football - Our Least Favorite Sport The 'cold and delicious' ice cream of Kahramanmaraş Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Turkish Movies Catalog, Index Habibullah and The Great Cannon Caper A Simple Turkish Thing We are extremely grateful to the following people for their Turkish-language source material on which much in the cinema sections of the 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' is based: Cihan Demirci, Metin Demirhan, Giovanni Scognamillo, and Ağah Özgüç. We also extend special thanks to the 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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