Arım, Balım, Peteğim

My Bee, My Honey, My Honeycomb (Arım, Balım, Peteğim) (translated)

Movie · 1970 · 5 people

The 1970 Turkish film My Bee, My Honey, My Honeycomb (Arım, Balım, Peteğim) joins romantic drama and the musical. It is a 35 mm colour picture of 86 minutes. Directed by Muzaffer Arslan, it is an adaptation of Billy Wilder's 1957 film Love in the Afternoon. The title song is part of the film's score, composed by Engin Arman.

The story follows a woman who finds the man she loves again after many years. Mehmet, a detective, shadows the society ladies' man Harun on his latest case and establishes that he is seeing a businessman's wife. The husband decides to have Harun killed. Mehmet's daughter Zeynep goes to warn Harun and ends up falling for him. After a short affair Harun leaves on a long business trip and abandons her. Zeynep is pregnant, raises the child alone, graduates from the conservatory and becomes a singer. One day, at the nightclub where she works, she meets Harun again and their paths cross anew. Türkân Şoray plays Zeynep, Cüneyt Arkın is Harun and Münir Özkul is her father Mehmet. Cevat Kurtuluş plays Abuzittin and Muammer Gözalan appears as a doctor.

Bülent Oran and Muzaffer Arslan wrote the screenplay together, with Arslan also producing for Sil Sine Film. Cengiz Tacer and Necati İlktaç share the cinematography.

DirectorMuzaffer Arslan
Production companySil Sine Film

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

Türkan Şoray, Cüneyt Arkın and Münir Özkul in one film: that trio alone is invitation enough for anyone who misses Yeşilçam's golden years. Adapted from Billy Wilder's 1957 film Love in the Afternoon, the story has been set within our own melodrama tradition: Zeynep, a detective's daughter, is abandoned by the man she loves and rebuilds her life through her own effort. The title song, part of Engin Arman's score, carries the musical side. Şoray's way of holding fragility and resolve together is the heart of stories like this.

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

A nice pick for grandparents who love Türkan Şoray and Münir Özkul, and it has songs too. But the story is heavy for young children: a man seeing a married woman, a husband who wants him killed, a young woman abandoned and raising her child alone. The melodrama is laid on thick as well. Teenagers and adults can watch together; it is not for little ones.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Made in 1970, the film offers telling clues about how women were seen at the time. After being abandoned, Zeynep raises her child alone, graduates from the conservatory and becomes a singer, a woman standing on her own feet. Yet the story still steers her back towards the man from her past. Society ladies, businessmen and the nightclub world make the class layers of big-city life visible. Seeing how a Hollywood film was turned into a local melodrama is also instructive for understanding the cinema of the period.

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