Acting
Filiz Akın's devastating, wordless final act.
Direction
Yılmaz weaponizes 1970s Turkish melodrama against itself.
Director
Atıf Yılmaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in Turkey for decades; only circulated through bootlegs until 2010s restoration.
Akın, Turkey's most bankable star, used her fame to force funding for this explicitly feminist project — then essentially retired from cinema.
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