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Beyoğlu Beauty (Beyoğlu Güzeli)

Beyoğlu Beauty (Beyoğlu Güzeli) (translated)

Movie · 1971 · 16 people

Ertem Eğilmez directed Beyoğlu Güzeli ("Beyoğlu Beauty"), a Turkish emotional drama. Some sources date it to 1971, with a release on January 1, 1972. Sadık Şendil wrote the screenplay and Nahit Ataman produced it for Arzu Film, with music credited to Yalçın Tura, Metin Bükey and Belkıs Özener. Tarık Akan and Hülya Koçyiğit share the leading roles.

The story concerns Ferit Aker, a medical student from a wealthy family, and Alev, who works as a kanto singer in her family's tent theater. The two meet by chance and fall in love, but one day Alev vanishes and leaves Ferit. A producer taken with her voice turns her into a well-known singer, and years later the two come face to face again. Marriage, pregnancy and death also figure in the story. Tarık Akan plays Ferit and Hülya Koçyiğit plays Alev. The cast includes Münir Özkul as Alev's father Apdi, Mürüvvet Sim as Melahat, Suphi Tekniker as Adnan, Müfit Kiper as Ferit's father and Göksel Kortay as his mother, with Adile Naşit and Güzin Özipek as madams and Halit Akçatepe as a vendor.

Mike Rafaelyan and Cahit Engin shared the cinematography. The film was dubbed, with Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm voicing Hülya Koçyiğit and Toron Karacaoğlu voicing Tarık Akan.

DirectorErtem Eğilmez
Production companyArzu Film

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Beyoğlu Güzeli is one of Yeşilçam's grand romantic melodramas: a medical student from a wealthy family and a young woman singing kanto in a tent theater. Tarık Akan and Hülya Koçyiğit side by side is enough to give it a special worth. The presence of masters such as Münir Özkul, Adile Naşit and Mürüvvet Sim lends the story that familiar warmth. In a film about a singer's rise, music has a place of its own. And, in the dubbing tradition of the time, hearing Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm's voice on Hülya Koçyiğit's face is nostalgia in itself.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A classic Yeşilçam love story. But heavy matters like marriage, pregnancy and death are part of the plot too. Young children may get bored or be upset by some parts. It suits teenagers better, watched together with grandparents. It is also a nice chance to introduce young people to the world of kanto and the tent theater.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In Beyoğlu Güzeli Ertem Eğilmez and Sadık Şendil apply the melodrama conventions of the period to the letter: love in the shadow of class difference, a sudden disappearance, fame and a reckoning years later. The structure offers viewers a familiar comfort but narrows the room for surprise; a plot that begins with a chance meeting leans more on genre expectations than on dramatic necessity. The screen chemistry of Tarık Akan and Hülya Koçyiğit is what really holds the film up. On the other hand, the dubbing makes it impossible to judge the performances in the actors' own voices, so part of the acting is hidden from us. The color photography and the music are pleasant, but the film never pushes the genre's limits.

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