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Beş Ateşli Kadın

Five Hot Women

Movie · 1968 · 7 people

Adventure and comedy, with a dose of slapstick, mix in Beş Ateşli Kadın ("Five Hot Women"), a 1968 Turkish-Egyptian-Lebanese co-production. Some sources list it under the alternative title Ateşli Delikanlı, and its Arabic title means roughly "the women's gang". Shot in Arabic and Turkish, it is one of the regional co-productions in which Turkish, Egyptian and Lebanese filmmakers worked together. Hulki Saner wrote and produced it, and it was released under the Saner Film name. The colour film runs about 80 minutes.

The story follows Murat, a journalist who goes after a crime ring made up entirely of women who print counterfeit money. His girlfriend Ayda, an Interpol agent, helps him. Their search takes the pair to a nightclub in Beirut and into the gang's connections until the network is exposed. Cüneyt Arkın plays Murat and Hülya Darcan plays Ayda. The cast also includes Sabah (as Seha), Tarup as Cathy, Zeki Sezer, Ferit Şevki, İsmail Yasin, Madiha Kamel and Youssef Wahbi. In the Turkish version Toron Karacaoğlu dubbed Cüneyt Arkın, Gülen Kıpçak dubbed Hülya Darcan and Atilla Yiğit dubbed Ferit Şevki.

Sources disagree on the director: some credit Frank Agrama, others Seyfettin Tiryaki. Bruno Salli was the cinematographer.

DirectorFrank Agrama
Production companySaner Film

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Cast

Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Ferit Şevki Ferit Şevki Actor · died at 77 Hülya Darcan Hülya Darcan Actor · 75 years old İsmail Yasin İsmail Yasin Actor · died at 59 Madiha Kamel Madiha Kamel Actor · died at 48 Sabah Sabah Actor · died at 87 Youssef Wahbi Youssef Wahbi Actor · died at 84

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

Casting Cüneyt Arkın as a journalist and Hülya Darcan as an Interpol agent in the same adventure, this 1968 picture is a curious keepsake from the years when Yeşilçam joined hands with its neighbours' cinemas. Just seeing Sabah and Youssef Wahbi in one cast warms the heart. Yet in chasing a gang of women counterfeiters, the story gives its characters little room to breathe; the deep feeling of the era's great melodramas is not what you will find here. I must add that the slapstick sometimes gets too noisy. Still, it is an eighty-minute, colourful and good-natured entertainment, and a valuable record for anyone curious about the co-productions of that time.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

On paper the idea is great: a gang of women printing counterfeit money, a journalist and an Interpol agent on their trail, and a nightclub in Beirut. At eighty minutes it doesn't overstay its welcome either. But expect a mix of adventure and comedy rather than big action; every time the slapstick kicks in, the tension drops. Cüneyt Arkın's energy carries the film, while the rest stays in the naive spirit of its day.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

What makes Beş Ateşli Kadın interesting is less the story on screen than the conditions of its making. It is a co-production shot in Arabic and Turkish that brought together filmmakers from three countries, and the dubbing of the leads in the Turkish version recalls the practice of the period. That sources cannot even agree on the director suggests a producer's project rather than an auteur's film, an impression reinforced by Hulki Saner handling both the script and the production. Genre staples such as the counterfeiting ring and the nightclub are played in a tone that swings between adventure and slapstick, and that balance never quite settles. Bruno Salli's colour photography is a point of curiosity in its own right for today's viewer. For film-history buffs, it is a small but instructive example of how regional co-productions worked.

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