My Bee, My Honey, My Honeycomb (Arım, Balım, Peteğim) (translated)
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.
| Director | Muzaffer Arslan |
|---|---|
| Production company | Sil Sine Film |
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