Turkish filmmakers have had no qualms about including earthy themes or meaty movie scenes in their movies since the 1950s. That’s when street prostitutes, drug-addicted harem girls, topless damsels in distress, topless bathers soapy girls, sexually provocative belly dancers and uninvited love-makers began to appear in mainstream Turkish films.

The ‘intensity’ of erotic action in mainstream Turkish films increased in the 1960s as ‘light’ opposite-sex erotic scenes began to heat up. And in the conventional of Atif Yilmaz Iki Gemi Yanyana (Two ships side by side), the first scene of a Turkish lesbian film, a scorching film for its time, in which Suzan Avci and Sevda Nur tongue-kissed on camera, stunned Turkish moviegoers when it was first shown in 1963.

Female film sex symbols during the ‘Turkish Vampire Era’ (1950s and 1960s) included Neriman Köksal (who made 177 films between 1950 and 1995), Funda Yanar [pictured on our website as a topless dancer in Büyük Sehrin Kanunu (Big City Law, 1965] and Leyla Sayar, who, in 1960, performed a memorably daring striptease act (we are told) in the Atif Yilmaz film. Olum Perdesi (curtain of death)… But Leyla Hanim drew the line in 1972, when she realized the direction in which seks filmleri furyasi (erotic cinema boom) would drive it. And after a brief stint as a dancer in a nightclub, she leaves the entertainment business altogether… opting in her place for a simple and godly life.

But it was not until 1972 that Parcali Behcet (starring action actor Behçet Nacar), made in a desperate attempt by filmmakers to lure audiences away from their newly purchased home televisions and back to nearly empty seats in movie theaters, became the First Turkish film produced. exclusively for erotic purposes.

And when Parcali Behcet it drew an overflow crowd of 7,000 on opening day for its initial screening in Konya (Mevlana’s ‘hometown’, at the heart of Turkish religious conservatism) and the Turkish filmmakers took notice (and heart). Later, when the film enjoyed a 6-month run, in two theaters next to each other right in the middle of that beautiful city, Well, the filmmakers believed they had found the holy grail. And from that moment until 1979, the production of eroticism Turkish films proliferated.

The three most popular genres for legally produced Turkish eroticism The movies between 1972 and 1978 were Comedy, Adventure, and Murder Mystery. And they all had a not-so-well-kept secret about them in common. The secret was that the Turkish actors and actresses were not actually performing the sexual act. They just faked it… The men were wearing underwear (underpants) and camera angles were chosen to cover up the fact, sometimes without much success. There are many flashes of men’s white underpants in Turkish. eroticism movies made between 1972 and 1978!

Any real sex that appeared in these films was performed by foreigners in parcalar (movie clips) that were inserted at predictable intervals from the Turkish film. sometimes these parcalar they were made specifically for the Turkish film they appeared in, but in most cases they were just crude cuts from foreign films, often completely inappropriate (in focus or color) for Turkish film.

that kind of eroticism Film subterfuge came to an abrupt halt in 1979, when the first all-Turkish cast was filmed in the first legally produced and distributed cinema. remove gloves turkish pornographic movie, Oyle Bir Kadin Ki (a woman like that) — directed by Naki Yurter, starring Zerrin Dogan and Levent Günsel in the leading female and male roles.

Oyle Bir Kadin Ki set the Turkish film industry on fire, having an even greater influence on the immediate directions of Turkish film-making than deep Throat had on making American movies in 1972.’kadin‘removed financial padding from its soft core eroticism rivals (and mainstream), and had a profound effect (for a while) on the production of almost all Turkish films (erotic or mainstream) that followed, opening a new chapter in the ‘History of Turkish Cinema’…

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