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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), | |||
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| Yalancı / Çok Yalnızım (Liar / I'm So Lonely) A romantic comedy movie/film,
He's the Rich Guy
Orçun Sonat in 'Yalancı/Çok Yalnızım' (1973)  Click for enlargement! Thanks to TürkMAX Channel and DigiTurk for the movie-photos above. | LFA - Türkan Şoray (who gets jilted), LMA - Aytaç Arman (The Poor Boy), LMA - Orçun Sonat (The Rich Man), MA - Tufan Giray (in his last film), MD- Mehmet Dinler, W- Safa Önal, C - Kriton İlyadis, PC - Melek Film (Şahan Haki) |
Movie plot summary: The story of young beauty (Türkan Şoray) who has to make her mind up between a young, handsome fiddler and a mature, rich hotel magnate. Movie plot highlights: When she gets stood up at the altar by a fiance who runs off to marry a wealthy society-babe, working-girl Türkan Şoray vows it will never happen again -- and sets out to entrap a rich husband... with the help of her girlfriends/workmates. She uses her life savings to buy a new wardrobe -- and posing as a rich foreign princess, she gives herself two weeks in a posh hotel for the purpose of winning a rich suitor. She is well on the way to snaring the hotel owner (a rich business magnate played by Orçun Sonat), until love delivers a body block (in the form of the hotel's handsome young fiddler, Aytaç Arman) and knocks her plans flat. In a reversal of what happened to her at the beginning of the film, Türkan leaves Orçun at the altar and goes to seek her true love, Aytaç. She finds him but doesn't recognize him -- disguised as an old man living in a grand mansion. She spills the beans about her marriage scheme gone wrong -- and about her love for the poor fiddler, Aytaç. Joy abounds when he removes his white wig and beard -- and it turns out that he's richer by far than Orçun. Aytaç had been posing himself, fiddling at the hotel, in order to find a woman who could love him -- even if he were poor. He kisses Türkan once on the forehead, once on the chin, but not on the mouth -- in keeping with her 'no kissing on camera' rule, and it's... The End! | |
| Yaprak Dökümü (Shedding Leaves) 2 movie/films adaptations (1958 and 1967) and 2 TV Series (1987 and 2006) based on the original 1939 novel by Resat Nuri Güntekin, an essential work of Turkish literature. A clip (1.92MB Windows Media Video .WMV file) from the 1967 movie version of Yaprak Dökümü (Shedding Leaves) featuring the two flighty Tekin sisters, Leyla (played by Fatma Girik) and Necla (played by Semiramis Pekkan) together with their solid but wall-flowery sister Fikret (played by Nurhan Nur). | The 1967 Movie/Film
LMA - Ediz Hun (as Şevket Tekin, son), LFA - Fatma Girik (Leyla Tekin, daughter), LFA - Semiramis Pekkan (as Necla Tekin, daughter), MA - Cüneyt Gökçer (as Ali Riza Tekin, father-husband), FA - Nurhan Nur (as Fikret Tekin, oldest daughter), MD - Memduh Ün, W - Orhan Kemal and Halit Refiğ The 2006-2007 Season TV Series (Kanal D) LMA - Halil Ergün (as Ali Riza Tekin, husband-father), LFA - Güven Hokna (as Hayriye Tekin, Ali Riza's wife), FA - Bennu Yıldırımlar (as Fikret Tekin, oldest daughter), MA - Caner Kurtaran (as Şevket Tekin, only son), FA - Deniz Çakır (as Ferhunde Tekin, scheming wife by marriage with Şevket), FA - Bedia Ener (as Neyyir Hanım, good neighbor and mother of Sedef), FA - Gökçe Bahadır (as Leyla Tekin, plain young daughter), FA - Fahriye Evcen (as Necla Tekin, pretty young daughter), FA - Seda Demir (as Sedef, young sweet neighbor, who holds a torch for Şevket), MA - Tolga Karel (as Oğuz Ayhan, mesmerizing and womanizing villain who firstly impregnates and then marries Leyla, then later runs off with Leyla's sister Necla -- but not before embezzling cash from his boss's company and making his boss's wife pregnant!) [Ed. The Oğuz Ayhan character is am budalası even though actor Tolga Karel is reportedly gay in real-life...] |
General Plot Summary: Movie and TV adaptations of the Resat Nuri Güntekin novel concern the decent but maddeningly naive Tekin family (husband, wife, son, and 4 daughters -- including an adolescent actress in a minor role) who all move to big-city Istanbul upon the retirement of patriarch Ali Riza Tekin from his Kaymakan post in rural Anatolia. The move results in disaster for the entire unsophisticated family, as the life of each family member begins to slowly (then more rapidly) unravel.
Summary of the 2007 Season TV Series Final Episode: Tekin family ties break down -- upon realization that the affair between Oğuz (Leyla's husband) and Necla (Leyla's sister) might have easily been prevented. In a fit of frustrated anger, Ali Riza Bey 'erases' beautiful daughter Necla from his life, and damns daughter Fikret for not voicing her suspicions about the affair to him... With the help of scheming 'double-agent' Ferhunde (wife of Şevket Tekin), Yaman (Oğuz's boss and his embezzlement victim too) is still hot on Oğuz's trail -- having learned that Oğuz and Necla are in Istanbul, making preparations to leave for Germany, and a new life... Leyla's mental state deteriorates further, as more details of the treacherous affair between her husband Oğuz and her sister Necla come to light... Without informing other Tekin family members, unappreciated daughter Fikret (who's been subjected once too often to unbalanced and humiliating family criticism), leaves home to marry the Sakaryalı relative of the next door neighbor -- a widowed man with 3 adolescent children, whom she hardly knows nor cares for romantically, just to get away from the rest of the Tekin clan. After her loveless marriage ceremony, Fikret makes a final visit to the Tekin homestead where she is met by an apologetic Ali Riza, who has finally come to his senses about his insensitive and wrong-headed treatment of his best, least appreciated daughter. But he lashes out at her again, when she sheepishly informs him of her marriage -- and she departs for the train station alone. In the final moments of this TV season finale, Ali Riza Bey is overcome with regret about his behavior towards daughter Fikret and he rushes off to the train station -- where he is only in time to bid a tearful farewell just before she departs for Sakarya to fulfill an unloving marital commitment with a man she barely knows...Click following for a video clip of highlights from the TV series season finale of Yaprak Dökümü (Shedding Leaves) -- a 2.9MB Windows Media Video .WMV file. | |
| Yedi Kocalı Also seen as: 
A 1979 erotik comedy film, written and directed by Ülkü Erakalın -- starring Zerrin Egeliler and many well-known Turkish actors of the day. A 16mm movie. VCD Movie Cover --
Zerrin Egeliler leads the cast of actors in Yedi Kocalı (The Woman with an erotik movie comedy.  Click! Despite the comic design of this movie, it's real purpose is to act as a delivery-tool -- enabling Zerrin Egeliler to display her multiple physical charms in as many simulated seks scenes as possible... some of which are raucously funny, others of which are highly erotik. Husband #1
After a night of wedded bliss, Tevhit Bilge is sorry to leave, but he'll be back in 7 days...  Click! |
LFA - Zerrin Egeliler (as Zerrin, a sensuous hooker and hustler -- until she falls in love with her gynecologist), LMA - Tarık Şimşek (as Zerrin's 'Monday' husband), LMA - Tugay Toksöz (as gynecologist Ayhan Ayhanoğlu), FA - Aliye Rona (as the gynecologist's mom), MA - Tevfik Şen (as Zerrin's Wednesday husband) Note: A few Turkish movie websites identify this actor (incorrectly, we believe) as Bülent Kayabaş See and learn a lot more about Zerrin Egeliler on the following pages: | Plot Summary: Zerrin's got a successful scam going... in cahoots with her brothel madame, Handan Abla (played by Handan Adalı). Male customers can only get their hands on the hot-blooded Zerrin if they marry her (in a bogus ceremony), and cough up extra cash for the privilege. Though only five husbands appear in our copy of the film, Handan Abla informs us that Zerrin's seven husbands include a lorry driver, a barber, a vegetable salesman, an owner of a supermarket, a coffee house proprietor, and an old (presumably rich) codger -- and they all come to visit her on different days of the week. Eventually, scheduling conflicts arise -- and to further complicate matters, Zerrin falls in love with her unmarried gynecologist (and he with her). The situation requires a drastic solution...
How Zerrin Snares A 'Husband': Once a man enters Zerrin's Place, he's a goner. First she comfortably seats him next to her on the overstuffed couch and gives him flirtatious looks. Then, to the accompanment of the lively mostly-female band, the half-clad dancing girls up the tempo of the music -- so that, long before the girl's have worked up a sweat, the man is dead meat. And with some urging from Handan Abla (Zerrin's madame played by Handan Adalı), up the stairs Zerrin takes her new fiancé for the phoney quickie-marriage ceremony (performed by Renan Fosforoğlu), before the 'newlyweds' trundle off to bed for a night of fun and passion. We've rather heavily doctored the latter portion of the following movie clip for the sake of propriety... Undoctored, it leaves precious little to the imagination. But we're sure you'll get the idea of what happened the night Zerrin snared her first husband (played by Tevhit Bilge) -- a 1.9MB Windows Media Video .WMV file. Note: Turkish-language students who listen closely to the speech-pattern of Husband #1, will detect that he speaks Turkish... with a Laz accent. | |
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