The Problem Is with Me (Dert Bende) (translated)

Orhan Elmas directed Dert Bende, a color Yeşilçam melodrama released on March 1, 1973. Adapted from Kerime Nadir's 1972 novel of the same name, the roughly 80-minute film tells the story of a young woman torn between love for her sister and a secret passion. Türkân Şoray stars.

It opens in a waterfront mansion in Yeniköy, only hours before Fatma's wedding. Meral Zeren plays Fatma, whose heart has swung between the naval officer Tarık and the wealthy Bülent before settling on the rich suitor. Türkân Şoray plays her younger sister Süreyya, a conservatory graduate who is devoted to the uncle who raised them both, played by Muammer Gözalan. Süreyya keeps an unspoken love for Tarık in her heart. A letter her sister did not want to write becomes, in her hands, a whole correspondence, and that small deception drags the story into years of separation and waiting.

Muzaffer Arslan and Bülent Oran co-wrote the screenplay. Sine Film produced it, with Muzaffer Arslan as producer, Norayr Demirci composed the score and Çetin Tunca handled the photography. A song titled Dert Bende, from 1972, is also sung in one scene.