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There's a Celebration / Honey Girl (Şenlik Var / Bal Kız)

There's a Celebration / Honey Girl (Şenlik Var / Bal Kız) (translated)

Movie · 1974 · 7 people

The Turkish film Şenlik Var / Bal Kız ("There's a Celebration / Honey Girl") was shot in colour, runs about 86 minutes and was released on 1 October 1974. It mixes drama, comedy and sentiment; Nejat Saydam directed and Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the screenplay. The film's distinctive touch is that Türkân Şoray plays two separate characters in the same picture, Zeliş and Leyla Taner.

Zeki Alasya plays opposite her as Selim. The cast is a crowded one: Salih Kırmızı is Ekrem, Hülya Tuğlu is Canan, Semih Sezerli is Süslü Kazım, Asuman Arsan is Cemile Kuru, Mualla Sürer is Güllü and Cevat Kurtuluş is Uşak Rıza. Smaller parts for a judge, a doctor, a marriage registrar, a circumciser, a gendarme and a police chief suggest a story that roams across a wide social circle.

Murat Köseoğlu produced the film, Metin Bükey wrote the music, Melih Sertesen shot it and Özdemir Arıtan edited it. Art director Semih Sezerli also acts in it. It belongs to Acar Film, which handled production, laboratory work, film preparation and dubbing together. In the dubbing credits, Şener Şen voices Semih Sezerli's part and Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm voices Türkân Şoray.

DirectorNejat Saydam
Production companyAcar Film

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Türkân Şoray Türkân Şoray Actor · 81 years old Zelis Zeki Alasya Zeki Alasya Film actor · died at 72 Salih Kırmızı Hülya Tuğlu Muammer Gözalan Muammer Gözalan Actor · died at 76 Kürşat Alnıaçık Kürşat Alnıaçık Actor · 63 years old Cevat Kurtuluş Actor · died at 70

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

Seeing Türkân Şoray play two separate characters in the same film, Zeliş and Leyla Taner, is reason enough for any Yeşilçam lover. Erdoğan Tünaş's script roams a wide world, from a penniless clerk to a nightclub, from a football match to a circumcision feast, sketching a crowded human landscape from the judge to the circumciser. Films like this are like albums that recall the streets and tables of an era. And a small detail for the curious: Şener Şen is among the dubbing voices.

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

A Yeşilçam film that mixes comedy, drama and sentiment, and one the whole family can watch. Friendship and compassion are front and centre. Pickpocketing and bag-snatching are part of the story too, so keep that in mind with little ones. Familiar occasions like a circumcision feast and a football match should please the grandparents as well.

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

Nejat Saydam's film builds itself a strong centre of gravity by giving Türkân Şoray two roles in the same picture, but double-role setups risk becoming a gimmick when the script cannot bring the two characters into meaningful contact. So many stops, from a penniless clerk to pickpockets, from a football match to a nightclub and a circumcision feast, in my view pull the story towards sprawl. Cramming drama, comedy and sentiment into about 86 minutes makes the tone shift often. That Şoray is voiced by Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm is a detail that recalls the dubbing practice of the period and will catch the eye of film-history buffs.

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