Cinema
Himmet Ağa'nın İzdivacı
Synopsis
According to the TMDb database entry, repeated by several sites, the film tells of a young girl's forced marriage to an old aga; TheTVDB, which draws on the same database, says it is taken from a farce by Molière, in the Turkish translation by Ahmed Vefik Paşa. Neither Hürriyet, nor Filmweb, nor the history of cinema on turkeyswar.com summarises its plot.
Context
Filming began during the war under the direction of Sigmund Weinberg, a Pathé representative born in Romania, according to turkeyswar.com; it stopped when most of the actors were mobilised, and Weinberg was set aside when Romania entered the war against the Central Powers. Fuat Uzkınay completed the film in 1918, according to Hürriyet, which specifies that the actors came from the operetta troupe of Arşak Benliyan. La Küre and Filmweb date it to 1916, the date filming began.
Who it is for
A silent film in Turkish, known mainly through accounts of its making; no recent screening has been reported.
Prizes and reception
Hürriyet ranks it first among long fiction films of Turkish cinema, drawing on the historian Agâh Özgüç.
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