Beyoğlu Beauty (Beyoğlu Güzeli) (translated)

Ertem Eğilmez directed Beyoğlu Güzeli ("Beyoğlu Beauty"), a Turkish emotional drama. Some sources date it to 1971, with a release on 1 January 1972. Shot in color, it runs 94 minutes. Sadık Şendil wrote the screenplay and Nahit Ataman produced it for Arzu Film, with music credited to Yalçın Tura, Metin Bükey and Belkıs Özener. Tarık Akan and Hülya Koçyiğit share the leading roles.

The story concerns Ferit Aker, a medical student from a wealthy family, and Alev, who works as a kanto singer in her family's tent theater. The two meet by chance and fall in love, but one day Alev vanishes and leaves Ferit. A producer taken with her voice turns her into a well-known singer, and years later the two come face to face again. Marriage, pregnancy and death also figure in the story. Tarık Akan plays Ferit and Hülya Koçyiğit plays Alev. The cast includes Münir Özkul as Alev's father Apdi, Mürüvvet Sim as Melahat, Suphi Tekniker as Adnan, Müfit Kiper as Ferit's father and Göksel Kortay as his mother, with Adile Naşit and Güzin Özipek as madams and Halit Akçatepe as a vendor.

Mike Rafaelyan and Cahit Engin shared the cinematography. The film was dubbed, with Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm voicing Hülya Koçyiğit and Toron Karacaoğlu voicing Tarık Akan.