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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. 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 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... 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 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 Click for enlargement! 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 Kartal Tibet (1981) Click for enlargement! Directed by Kartal Tibet (1986) Click for enlargement! 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) Click for enlargement! Yılmaz Şahin was a murdering maniac in Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (1979) Click large! Thanks to HepsiBurada.com 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 Click! 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 Click! Seher Şeniz in Bravo Magazine Gündemde (My Agenda) July 1982 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 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 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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