The Bread Seller Woman (Ekmekçi Kadın)

Zafer Davutoğlu directed the 1965 black-and-white Yeşilçam melodrama Ekmekçi Kadın (The Bread Seller Woman), with Osman F. Seden as screenwriter and producer for Kemal Film. Adapted from Xavier de Montépin's 1884 French novel La Porteuse de Pain, it tells of a wronged mother seeking her children. The story was also filmed in Turkey in 1938 and 1972.

It begins in Istanbul in the winter of 1943. Widowed after a workplace accident, Ayşe Çelik is left with two small children, Metin and Zeynep, and finds work in a factory. Her beauty becomes her curse: Nazmi, a foreman who claims to have been her husband's friend, is obsessed with her and, rejected, burns down the factory, kills and frames Ayşe. She gets life in prison and her children are scattered. Twenty-one years later paths cross again: Metin is a lawyer, Zeynep grew up in an orphanage as Leyla, and Nazmi, under a new name, is a wealthy industrialist from Egypt. Türkân Şoray plays Ayşe, İzzet Günay Kemal, Çolpan İlhan Sevim and Kenan Pars Nazmi, with Kadir Savun and Nubar Terziyan also in the cast.

Kenan Kurt was the cinematographer. The key confrontation scene uses the 1964 melody Quando Ritornerà Da Me, where the 1972 remake would use another piece.