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The Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies/Films Short Subjects, Documentaries, TV and Radio for English Speakers -- 'O' -- Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Mature Foreign British Bride in Turkey Mature Foreign Swedish Bride in Turkey The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages Turkish Male/Female Personal Names Seda Sayan Sings Up A Storm -- and pleases the eye To 'Sekreter'... and 'erotik' movie clips of young Hülya Avşar 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 O     O Benim Karımdı (She was my wife) A tragicomic movie/film, made in 2001. Young Mehmet Ezici in 'Enişte' (1979) Click! Kazım Kartal in 'Enişte' Click! Hakkı Kıvanç Click! LFA - Şişme Kadiın (The Blow-Up Doll), LMA - Mehmet Ezici, MA - Kazım Kartal, MA - Kudret Karadağ, MA - Ekrem Erkek, MA - Hakkı Kıvanç, MD-W- Mehmet Ezici, C - Şener Işık, PC - Vizyon FIlm Click following (a 2.8 MB Windows Media Video .WV File) for a TV Entertainment News Report (thanks to TV Kanal 1) with film clips from the low-budget (25,000 YTL) award-winning movie, 'She Was My Wife'... Click following for an amusing Real-Life Turkish Experience involving a Blow-Up Doll. Plot summary: When he can't find a flesh-and-blood soul mate, an unfortunate middle-aged man (Mehmet Ezici) resorts to love in the form of a Blow-Up Doll, with tragic consequences. Plot Highlights: A man is unable to establish a close relationship with a woman, so he resorts to buying a Blow-Up Doll. He takes it home, and makes satisfying love to it. He soon becomes so attached to the doll that he marries it in a ceremony he performs by himself -- and starts living with the doll as if he were married. Without announcing his new 'marital status' to his male friends, he continues to go out at night with them as usual, but he silently reminds himself that, "My wife is waiting" -- and he always returns home early. Once home, he talks with the doll for hours. His friends become suspicious about his situation, and one day when the man isn't home, they enter his house and see the Blow-up Doll. As a joke (in extremely bad taste), the friends 'kidnap' the doll to a remote place where they take turns 'raping' it. Upon learning that his 'wife' has been 'abducted and raped', the man becomes certifiably insane and, on the grounds that his friends have injured his honor, he murders all three of them in cold blood. Arzu Okay Turkish conventional and erotik movie actress Arzu Okay shared top-billing with Feri Cansel in the 'erotik' comedy movie Ayıbettin/Ayıpettin Şemsettin (Behave Shamefully, Şemsettin) in 1971. Click! Featured pages: Brainy Queen of 'Erotik' Turkish Movies Arzu Okay On Top Arzu Takes Off...everything. After 'retiring' from the movie-business in 1978, Arzu Okay became a successful business-woman -- following in the footsteps of Zerrin Doğan. Picture of innocence on the brink of... Gunah (Sin) 1976 Click individual pics for enlargement! Downfall of an angel... Arzu Okay progresses from innocence to decadence in Sokak Kadını (Street Woman) 1976 Click individual pics for enlargement! Mine Mutlu and Arzu Okay co-starred in the 'erotik' comedy classic Ah Deme, Oh De! (Don't Say Ah, say Oh!) in 1974 Click! In the poll taken of Turkish erotic movie fans in 2008, Zerrrin Egeliler won -- but Arzu Okay placed second, winning a respectable 31% of the votes cast. In an interview that Arzu Okay gave to Milliyet Gazetesi in 1999, she said, "When I watch more recent Turkish films, I understand that, in my day, we were a lot more innocent. When I say 'we'...I'm talking about myself, Mine Mutlu, and other actress friends. As the Turkish idiom suggests...Kabak her zaman ilk yapanın başına patlar (The pumpkin always explodes on the head of the first one at the scene) -- we took the brunt of things because we were the first of 'our kind' of actresses... For example, we were like flies that wander out over a sea. We weren't killed, but we were also without options. If we were asked to do the same thing today, would we? No. But in those days, to make a long story short...we were compelled to make seks films in order to enjoy the simple comforts of life...like a house with central heating." More to come... Let us know if you enjoy our 'Movies Database' pages and film clips. We'll add more of them if you do... Also: The Gossipy Who's Who of Turkey, index Turkish Belly Dancing Stars Mature Foreign British Bride in Turkey Mature Foreign Swedish Bride in Turkey The Top Ten Turkish Movies of All Time 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages Turkish Male/Female Personal Names 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 Turkish Verbs Essential Idioms, Index Essential Suffixes, Index Sentence Structure, Standard Turkish Pronunciation Turkish Accenting Numbers in Turkish NewsReaders' Dictionary, Index Unrelated fun: The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls My First Time Habibullah and the Great Cannon Caper A simple Turkish 'thing'... Turkish Terms Of Endearment Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Turkish Kinsey Report #1 - Turkey opens up about its seks Turkish Kinsey Report #2 - Did they hear it through the grapevine? Turkish Kinsey Report #3 - Was it good for you? Turkish Kinsey Report #4 - The first time, by age group... Turkish Kinsey Report #5 - Who's gotta have it? He? Or she? Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik Translating Danielle Steele 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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