TALE OF A SINGER
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Original Title: ŞARKICI
Runtime: 125 mins
Language: Turkish
Year: 2001
Color 35mm
Turkey |
| Resume |
Turkey, 1958. Ethics and social values reflect the demands of a newly emerging
society based on greed and money. A down and out singer of classical Turkish music, Sevda (Yeşim Salkım) finds a job with a company of traveling musicians touring the countryside to entertain rich farmers and merchants. The first stop is a small Anatolian town, where the singer’s destiny changes overnight. Wildly popular beyond her dreams, she rediscovers success and confidence in herself. The richest and most powerful landowner of the town (Berhan Şimşek) is attracted to her and wants her for himself.
Aided and abetted by his long standing mistress – the town’s dressmaker (Nurseli İdiz) – he makes plans for winning her over. However the singer falls in love with a smart young engineer and dreams of marrying him. The mysterious town doctor (Kazım Akşar)
watches silently as the drama unfolds against a background of small town politics. |
| Crew |
Director
Producer
Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Production Designer
Film Editor
Composer |
Ersin Pertan
Annie Geelmuyden-Pertan
Ersin Pertan
Ertunç Şenkay
Annie Geelmuyden-Pertan
Nevzat Dişiaçık
Kamran Ince |
| Cast |
Sevda
Refik
Cevat
Samiye
Selim
Madam Sofia
Şemsi
Sabri
Necla
Ramiz
Hamiyet
Nuran
Ouverture
Hikmet
Ouverture |
Yeşim Salkım
Berhan Şimşek
Kazım Akşar
Nurseli Idiz
Faik Ergin
Aysel Gürel
Erdinç Akbaş
Settar Tanrıöğen
Hilal Cebeci
Aykut Oray
Reyhan Karaçam
Nuran Sultan
Safiye Aydoğan
Mustafa Uzunyılmaz
Pınar Yılmaz |
| Awards |
| Yeşim Salkım |
BEST ACTRESS |
Antalya Golden Orange
Film Festival 2001 |
| Ertunç Şenkay |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY |
Antalya Golden Orange
Film Festival 2001 |
| Fono Film Studio |
BEST POSTPRODUCTION |
Antalya Golden Orange
Film Festival 2001 |
| Nurseli İdiz |
BEST SUPORTING ACTRESS |
Sadri Alışık Cinema Award 2002 |
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