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Türkan Şoray strokes Kadır İnanır's brow before they marry (as indicated by the sign on his truck-cabin still displaying 'Aldırma Gönül' (Cheating Heart) in 'Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım' (1977).
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The Whole Earth Catalog of
Turkish Movies/Films
Short Subjects, Documentaries,
TV and Radio

for English Speakers
-- 'Ş' --

In 1971, Türkan Şoray starred
with Salih Güney and Tanju Gürsu
in Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz
(Hürmüz And Her Seven Husbands)
directed by Atıf Yılmaz.
In 1979, Zerrin Egeliler starred
with Kamer Baba in Yedi Kocalı
(Woman With Seven Husbands),
an erotik film with the same theme
directed by Ülkü Erakalın.

Movie photo from 'Kadersizler' (The Unfortunate Ones) starring Zerrin Egeliler and Oktar Durukan, 1979
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  • Turkish Movies Catalog Index
  • Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc?
  • 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
  • Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister
  • Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite
  • Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child
  • Spunky Karaca Kaan -- What made her so damn mad?!
  • Karaca Kaan, True Confessions
  • Karaca Kaan Center
  • 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...

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    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
    Ş  
    Şaban Pabucu Yarım
    This 87-minute-long comedy film (released in 1985) was one in a running series -- all of which starred Kemal Sunal as the artless Şaban. The figurative translation of this movie's title is 'Come out and play with us Şaban'. It's rooted in the ditty that Turkish children chant in a group to entice a house-bound friend to come out to play with them. Starting with a Person's Name (in this case Şaban) the ditty goes: Şaban pabucu yarım, Çık dışarıya oynayalım. That bit of childish banter means: Hey Şaban with the half-shoe, come outside, let's play.


    LMA - Kemal Sunal (as Şaban), MA - Halit Akçatepe (as Ali), LFA - Adile Naşit (as Şaban's sister-in-law Adile), FA - Müge Akyamaç (as Pemra), MD - Kartal Tibet, W - Halit Akçatepe, Aydemir Akbas P - Yahya Kılıç, M - Cahit Berkay, C - Rafet Şiriner
    According to the Hürriyet Gazetesi TV listing for 4 December 2007, this film was given a rating of 2 stars out of 3 the day it was shown on the ATV Channel.
    Kartal Tibet was a swashbuckling hearthrob in his acting days, but when he turned to directing he was instantly successful with comedy films. Tibet was one of Kemal Sunal's favorite comedy film directors, as exemplified by the two following posters, and his comedies often included the character-actress Adile Naşit in the cast...
    Directed by
    Movie Poster for 'Davaro' with Kemal Sunal, Pembe Mutlu, Adile Naşit -- directed by Kartal Tibet (1981)
    Kartal Tibet (1981)
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    Directed by
    Famous Turkish Movies Series -- Movie Poster...'Deli Deli Küpeli' - a comedy directed by former matinee idol Kartal Tibet and starring Kemal Sunal (d. July 2000), veteren actor in 87 films
    Kartal Tibet (1986)
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    Plot Summary: In this particular comedy film of the Şaban-series, our guilelss namesake hero (played by Kemal Sunal) can't hold a job for love or money and is forced to live together with his older sister-in-law, Adile Hanım (played by Adile Naşit). Adile Hanım is very fond of the neghborhood children and builds a park for them in the garden next to her home. But the happy scenario is shortlived -- because news surfaces that a soulless building contractor is making ready to sieze and raze Adile Hanım's home and garden to make way for a modern apartment building. That's when Şaban and best friend Ali get cracking, take matters in hand, and save the day.
    Yılmaz Şahin

    Yılmaz Şahin
    frightens Zerrin Doğan
    with this withering look
    in Öyle Bir Kadın Ki
    (A Woman Like That)
    Yılmaz Şahin, Erotic Movies/Films Actor of the 1970s and 80s
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    Yılmaz Şahin
    was a murdering maniac in
    Öyle Bir Kadın Ki
    (1979)
    Erotic Movie poster for 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' starring Zerrin Doğan, Levent Ünsal, Zafir Seba, and Yılmaz Şahin (1979)
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    Apart from a bit part in the 1973 film production of Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (Tourist Omer In Space) Yılmaz Şahin's entire movie career took place in 1979 -- when he acted in 8 'erotik' movies/films (starting with Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- A Woman Like That) opposite such 'erotik' leading actresses as Dilber Ay, Meltem Isık, Zafir Seba (Saba), and Arzu Okay. All 8 of those films were directed by the same prolific Director, Naki Yurter (real name: Yani Veligradino) -- who never made another movie/film after 1980 (subsequent to his arrest for making pornographic movies by the 1980 military government of Turkey). And, Yılmaz Şahin made no other films after 1979 -- he seems to have dropped off the map altogether, without a trace. Was the arrest in 1980 of his favorite Director the cause of his shortened career? Probably.
    See also:
  • Öyle Br Kadın Ki
  • Zafir Seba (Saba)
  • a G-Rated movie-video clip from Öyle Bir Kadın Ki, featuring Zafir Seba and co-star Yılmaz Şahin in a youthfully exuberant romp along the shoreline of a deserted sandy beach...
    Yılmaz Şahin's Entire Movie Career:
  • 1973 - Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (Tourist Omer in Space), in a conventional movie acting-role
  • 1979 - Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (A Woman Like That), lead 'erotik' supporting actor to actress Zafir Seba (Saba)
  • 1979 - Anasına Bak Kızını Al 16mm (Look to the Mother, Take the Daughter), lead supporting actor to actress Dilber Ay
  • 1979 - Beklenen Kadın (Expected Woman), leading actor to actress Arzu Okay
  • 1979 - Tehlikeli Kadınlar (Dangerous Women), leading actor to actress Meltem Işık
  • 1979 - Esmer Bomba (Brunette Bombshell), leading actor to actresses Zafir Seba (Saba) and Meltem Işık
  • 1979 - Yudum Yudum Sev (Love, In Small Swallows), lead supporting actor to actress Dilber Ay
  • 1979 - Sıcak Sıcak (Very Hotly), leading actor to actress Meltem Işık
  • 1979 - Sevginin Bedeli (The Equivalent of Love), leading actor to actress Dilber Ay


  • Seher Şeniz
    Conventional and erotik Turkish movie star, born 1948 -- real first name, Zora. Comitted suicide in May 1992.
    Movie Publicity Photo --
    The Dead-pan Seher Şeniz
    in the late 1970s

    Seher Şeniz, Dead-pan publicity photo in the late 1970s
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    First taste of stardom came in 1965 when İzmirli (Izmir-born/raised) Seher Şeniz won a Beauty Contest while vacationing at an Aegean beach resort. She got started in show biz as a stripper (as did Feri Cansel at nearly the same time). Şeniz's trademark dead-pan expression, while she danced, intrigued audiences and the Turkish entertainment press alike. She only made 23 films in total -- all but 5 of them were conventional. But in 1975 she made the move to erotik movies when she starred opposite Mete İnselel and İlhan Daner in Muz Sever Misin? (Do You Like Bananas?) written and directed by Oksal Pekmezoğlu. Of those 5 erotik films that Şeniz made, 3 were released in 1975 -- the other 2 in 1976. After the Turkish Army coup of 1980, Şeniz attempted to make a comeback by 'revealing' for several men's magazines (e.g. Erkekçe, Bravo -- see at right). But her time in that limelight soon faded -- and she made just one more film, the conventional comedy Uyanıklar Dünyası (Sharpwits World) directed by Aram Gülyüz in 1985. Afterwards, she slipped slowly into depression and ended her life with sleeping pills in 1992 at the age of 44 -- leaving behind this poignent suicide note for her older brother:

    I've finally succeeded in leaving this disgusting life. Don't bury me as a Muslim. Wrap me in a white bathrobe and cover me over in my grave, letting no one see my face or body.

    More coming soon.
    Seher Şeniz
    Erotik Movies:
  • Muz Sever Misin? (Do You Like Bananas) 1975 -- Seher Şeniz prepares for bed...a 350 KB Windows Media Video (.WMV) file.
  • Seher Şeniz
    semi-Erotik Movies:
  • Tarkan Viking Kanı (Tarkan Viking Blood aka Tarkan and the Vikings)

  • Seher Şeniz
    Magazine Pictorials:
    Seher Şeniz in Erkekçe Magazine
    Bu Seher Şeniz kimse inanmiyor!
    (This Seher Şeniz is unbelievable!)
    May 1981

    Seher Şeniz, Erkekçe Magazine pictorial, 1981
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    Seher Şeniz in Bravo Magazine
    Gündemde (My Agenda)
    July 1982

    Seher Şeniz, Bravo Magazine pictorial, 1982
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    Also:
  • Turkish Movies Catalog Index
  • Sibel Kekilli -- Minor porn star or cinematic Joan of Arc?
  • 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
  • Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister
  • Seda Sayan, of the appealingly 'sensitive' overbite
  • Erotik Yasemin Ünlü, Motherless Child
  • Spunky Karaca Kaan -- What made her so damn mad?!
  • Karaca Kaan, True Confessions
  • Karaca Kaan Center
  • 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
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