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ASIYE BE SAVED? (Asiye Nasil Kurtulur)
Turkey 1986 / 100m / English subtitles / Cert.15
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Müjde Ar, Ali Poyrazoglu,Hümeyra, Füsun
Demirel,Yaman Okay
The President and several members of the Association Against
Prostitution pay a visit to the brothels in Sirinkent, as
a result of a letter which they have received from a prostitute
named Asiye. The letter was a complaint about the inadequacy
of the advice given in the booklets distributed by the very
same Association. The members are astonished to discover that
Asiye is alone and friendless. Moreover, each girl has more
or less been through similar experiences to Asiye's. They
decide to stage Asiye's life for their visitors.
 THE
GIRL WITH THE RED SCARF (Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim)
Turkey 1966 / 95m / English subtitles / Cert. 12A
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Türkan Soray, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin, Hulya
Tuglu, Nurhan Nur
Ilyas is a truck driver working on the construction site
of a dam. He meets a village girl named Asya by chance and
they fall in love and get married. Their love, however, does
not last long. Ilyas starts drinking and as a result he loses
both his job and Asya's love. The situation worsens and Asya
takes her son and leaves Ilyas. She soon runs into trouble
but luckily meets Cemsit who helps her. A relationship begins
to develop between Cemsit and Asya. But one day Ilyas returns
and Asya then has to make a choice between the two men.
 MY
DREAMS, MY LOVE AND YOU (Hayallerim Askim Ve Sen)
Turkey 1987 / 100m / English subtitles / Cert. 12A
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Türkan Soray, Oguz Tunç, Müsfik Kenter,
Fatos Sezer, Engin Unal
Ever since his childhood days in the orphanage, Coskun has
been in love with the famous film actress Derya Altinay. Coskun's
dream has been to write a scenario in which Derya would play
a completely different character to the stereotypical ones
in her films. Then Coskun finds a way to meet Derya and writes
a dreamy love story. The film is completed, but it (and Derya's
performance) turn out differently from how he imagined.
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BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL (Ah Güzel Istanbul)
Turkey 1966 / 96m / English subtitles / Cert. 12A
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Sadri Alisik, Ayla Algan
O BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL is a bitter-sweet comedy about the chance
friendship between a failed but wise street photographer and
a naïve peasant girl who has run away from her village
and come to Istanbul to become a movie star. When naivety
meets wisdom in the big city, two destinies are reshaped.
Together they learn some important lessons about life, which
takes on an optimistic hue for them both.
 OH
BELINDA (Aahh Belinda)
Turkey 1986 / 96m / English subtitles / Cert. 15
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Müjde Ar, Macit Koper, Yilmaz Zafer, Mehmet Akan,
Füsun Demirel
Serap, a young actress with a strong, lively personality
and a special dislike for middle-class family life, takes
part in a TV-commercial for a recently marketed shampoo, "Belinda".
She plays the role of a typical housewife called Naciye. During
one of the rehearsals, she suddenly finds that the stage has
disappeared, the crew has vanished and all the elements of
the script have become real. Now she is Naciye. No one around
recognizes her as Serap anymore. Even worse, her 'family'
thinks that she is suffering from depression, while Serap
desperately tries to prove otherwise.
 VASFIYE
IS HER NAME (Adi Vasfiye)
Turkey 1986 / 87m / English subtitles / Cert. 15
Director: Atif Yilmaz
Cast: Müjde Ar, Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Yilmaz
Zafer, Füsun Demirel
A young writer anguished because he finds nothing interesting
to write about, strolls through the streets of Izmir. He comes
across a series of posters of Sevim Suna, a local singer.
She intrigues him and he stops to wonder who she is. At that
point a man comes up to him and says that her name is "Vasfiye".
The stranger begins to tell her story. As the young writer
listens he finds himself transported into different versions
of Vasfiye's life.
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