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İşportacı Kız

Street Vendor Girl

Movie · 1970 · 4 people

Türker İnanoğlu directed the 1970 musical romantic comedy İşportacı Kız ("Street Vendor Girl"), made as a Turkish-Iranian co-production. Bülent Oran wrote the screenplay, Türker İnanoğlu and Esmail Kushan produced, and Çetin Gürtop and Hassan Mahd Yadegar handled cinematography for the 90-minute color picture, made under the Erler Film banner.

The plot revolves around Gül, a young woman who scrapes by as a street peddler with her sweetheart Kartal and their friends, and the confusion that erupts because she is the spitting image of Jale, the pampered daughter of the wealthy Hulusi Bey. Jale has fallen for Cafer, a charming fortune hunter, so her worried father hires the private detective Çaktım Zeki. When a gangster boss exploits Cafer to kidnap Jale for ransom, the lookalikes get mixed up in the chaos, until Kartal and his friends come to Hulusi Bey's aid and trick the crooks into capture.

Filiz Akın (Gül) and Kartal Tibet (Kartal) head the cast, with Cihangir Gaffari as Cafer and Humayun Tebrizyan as the detective Zeki. The supporting cast features Hulusi Kentmen, Necdet Tosun, Sami Hazinses, Mürüvvet Sim, and Gülgün Erdem.

DirectorTürker İnanoğlu
Production companyErler Film
Street Vendor Girl

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Cihangir Gaffari Actor · 86 years old Cafer Filiz Akın Filiz Akın Film actor · died at 82 Gül Humayun Tebrizyan Humayun Tebrizyan Actor · died at 88 Zeki Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet Film director · died at 82 Kartal

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

Just seeing Filiz Akın and Kartal Tibet in the same frame is enough to take you back to the bright Yeşilçam of the early seventies. İşportacı Kız dresses up an old, endearing game, two lookalike girls being mistaken for each other, with music and cheer. Filiz Akın plays Gül, who earns her living on the street, with both warmth and grace, a reminder of how accomplished that generation of actors was. Familiar faces such as Hulusi Kentmen and Sami Hazinses add a homely warmth. The story promises no surprises, but it is a good-hearted film that never wears you out.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Behind İşportacı Kız lies a contrast common in Turkish cinema of the time: Gül and her friends, who scrape a living as street vendors, set against Jale, the pampered daughter of the wealthy Hulusi Bey. The mix-up built on their resemblance briefly erases the distance between poor and rich and opens class difference up for discussion through comedy. The fortune hunter Cafer reflects a frequent worry of the period about how money shapes relationships. That the film is a Turkish-Iranian co-production is interesting in its own right, offering a small window onto the two countries' film ties in those years. Still, it doesn't deepen these themes; in the end it remains light entertainment.

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

A cheerful, colourful film with music; grandparents and grandchildren can watch it together. Kids will love the mix-up between two girls who look alike. There's a kidnapping and ransom plot, but the overall mood is comic, with more laughs than scares. Children not used to the pace of older films may get a little restless, though. A nice pick for a holiday afternoon.

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