The Bread Seller Woman (Ekmekçi Kadın)

Ekmekçi Kadın (The Bread Seller Woman) is a 1965 black-and-white Turkish drama film directed by Zafer Davutoğlu, with Osman F. Seden as screenwriter and producer for Kemal Film. Adapted from Xavier de Montépin's 1884 French novel La Porteuse de Pain, the film features cinematography by Kenan Kurt. Türkân Şoray, İzzet Günay and Çolpan İlhan head the cast, alongside Nubar Terziyan, Kadir Savun and Kenan Pars.

Set in Istanbul in the winter of 1943, the story follows the widowed factory worker Ayşe, who is sentenced to life imprisonment after the obsessed Nazmi commits murder and frames her; years later she escapes and seeks to reunite with her children. The same story had previously been filmed in Turkey in 1938 and would be remade in 1972.