Cinema
Fosforlu Cevriye
Aydın Arakon · 1959
Synopsis
The film follows Cevriye, a young woman of the streets with a masculine character who struggles to survive, according to Beyazperde and biyografiler.com. In the novel of the same title, from which Cumhuriyet says it is taken, this girl, raised without knowing her parents, earns her living in the streets of Galata in the thirties and falls in love with a man wanted by the police. It is not known what the film keeps of this story.
Context
The director wrote the screenplay himself. Beyazperde, biyografiler.com and Cumhuriyet say it is taken from the novel by Suat Derviş; soL maintains on the contrary that the film has no connection with that book, whose title it shares. Neriman Köksal plays Cevriye, opposite Orhan Günşiray. According to Cumhuriyet, a second film appeared in 1969 under the title Bana Derler Fosforlu, the author herself drew a screenplay from the book in 1972, and a musical was staged from it in 2008 by the Ankara State Theatres, then taken up by the Istanbul municipal theatres.
Who it is for
A Turkish-language film of the fifties, with no known French release, carried by the actress who plays Cevriye.
Prizes and reception
The film that made its director famous, according to TMDb data; its relationship to the book of the same name remains debated.
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