Female Enemy (Dişi Düşman) (translated)

Nejat Saydam directed Dişi Düşman (Female Enemy), a Turkish adventure film from 1966. Saydam wrote the screenplay with Aydın Arakon, Murat Köseoğlu produced it and Acar Film made it. It is a black-and-white film of about 100 minutes. Cüneyt Arkın, Hülya Koçyiğit and Ajda Pekkan share the leads, and the opening credits carry Pekkan's recording of the song Serseri, which has nothing to do with the film's story.

The story opens in 1453, on the day Byzantium falls. So that it will never reach the Turks, the empire's treasure is secretly buried, its location hidden in the arms of a seven-branched candelabrum. The action then jumps to 1960s Istanbul. Cüneyt Arkın plays Cengiz and Hülya Koçyiğit his girlfriend Asuman, an archaeology student who lives with her uncle Şemsi. Şemsi (Atıf Kaptan) and his men are digging everywhere for the candelabrum arms. Ajda Pekkan plays Irene, a dangerous blonde who also wants the treasure.

Chases, torture scenes, a masked ball and spies carry the adventure from Istanbul to Cyprus, and the hoard is meant to pay for weapons. Melih Sertesen shot the film and Fecri Ebcioğlu composed the music. Footage of the conquest was borrowed from İstanbul'un Fethi (1951).