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Sabah Yıldızı

Morning Star (Sabah Yıldızı) (translated)

Movie · 1968 · 3 people

Türker İnanoğlu directed and produced Sabah Yıldızı ("Morning Star"), a 1968 colour Yeşilçam melodrama. Bülent Oran wrote the screenplay from Muazzez Tahsin Berkand's novel. Mixing childhood love, false identity and an inheritance scheme, it reunites the popular pairing of Filiz Akın and Ediz Hun, with Gülsüm Kamu, Nubar Terziyan and Necabettin Yal also in the cast.

Nevin loses her father and then her mother young, and grows up under the guardianship of a distant relative, Mehmet. Working in a retired pasha's mansion, she receives a letter from her "husband": her guardian slipped a marriage permit in among papers he had her sign unread. Nevin travels to Istanbul to find the composer Nevzat Ekrem (Ediz Hun), only to be turned away and accused of fraud, since Mehmet has produced another "Nevin" to claim a dowry left in a will. Ekrem and Nevin agree to a business-like marriage lasting just one year. They loathe each other at first, but once Uncle Kamil turns the provincial girl into an elegant woman, things change, and the childhood sweetheart pictured in Nevin's locket brings an unexpected twist to the story.

Çetin Gürtop shot it and Yıldırım Gürses composed the score. It runs about 84 minutes.

DirectorTürker İnanoğlu
Production companyErler Film
Morning Star (Sabah Yıldızı)

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Ediz Hun Ediz Hun Actor · 85 years old Filiz Akın Filiz Akın Film actor · died at 82 Gülsüm Kamu Gülsüm Kamu Actor · 82 years old

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

Seeing Filiz Akın and Ediz Hun in the same frame is a warmth of its own for anyone raised on Yeşilçam. Sabah Yıldızı carries the familiar world of Muazzez Tahsin Berkand's novels: an orphaned young woman, a scheming guardian, a fake 'Nevin' and a marriage arranged for just one year. Bülent Oran's script ties these threads together with real skill. Yıldırım Gürses's score and the voices of Belkıs Özener and Semiramis Pekkan lend the film an extra grace. And the provincial girl blossoming into an elegant lady under Uncle Kamil's care recalls one of old cinema's dearest fairy tales.

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

A film you can comfortably put on for the whole family. It's a Yeşilçam love melodrama built on feelings rather than fights, and at around 84 minutes it's over before the kids get restless. The older ones light up the moment Filiz Akın and Ediz Hun appear. For younger children the plot can be confusing, though: guardianship, papers signed unread, a will, a dowry. You may need to explain a few things along the way. In the end it's a sweet love story that grandparents and teenagers will enjoy most.

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

Sabah Yıldızı is an almost textbook example of the period's melodrama mould, which is both its strength and its limit. Türker İnanoğlu lines up false identity, an inheritance scheme and a contract marriage at an efficient clip, but the plot leans on coincidence and on the scheming guardian's easily read intrigues. The shift from loathing to love seems to come more from the script's needs than from the characters' inner lives. Then again, Çetin Gürtop's colour photography and the settled chemistry between Filiz Akın and Ediz Hun keep the formula watchable. Enjoyable for fans of the genre, all too predictable for anyone outside it.

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