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Fatoş'un Bebekleri

Fatoş's Babies (Fatoş'un Bebekleri) (translated)

Movie · 1962 · 3 people

Arşavir Alyanak directed Fatoş'un Bebekleri ("Fatoş's Babies") in 1962 from a screenplay by Bülent Oran, a Turkish comedy-drama. Şahan Haki produced it and Melek Film made it.

At its center are Suat (Sadri Alışık), an extremely jealous husband, and his wife Fatoş (Fatma Girik). Suat will not let Fatoş go out or visit anyone. When he travels out of town on business, Fatoş goes to a meal with a friend, but the restaurant owner knows Suat and word reaches him. After Suat walks out on the marriage, Fatoş calls him back home with the lie that she is pregnant. There is no baby, and the pair start searching for one; when Suat gets home he will meet not one baby but three. İzzet Günay plays Haşmet. The cast also includes Serpil Gül (Sevim), Öztürk Serengil (Hafiye Sami), Mine Soley (the secretary), Mualla Sürer (the nanny Huriye), Necdet Tosun (the clerk), Sedat Demir (the waiter Miço) and Zuhal Tan (Ayfer).

The cinematographer is Memduh Yükman and the editor Turgut İnangiray, with Erman Film handling film preparation. In dubbing, Hayri Esen voices İzzet Günay, Adalet Cimcoz voices Fatma Girik and Mücap Ofluoğlu voices Öztürk Serengil.

DirectorArşavir Alyanak
Production companyMelek Film
Fatoş's Babies (Fatoş'un Bebekleri) Fatoş's Babies (Fatoş'un Bebekleri)

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İzzet Günay İzzet Günay Actor · 92 years old Sadri Alışık Actor · died at 69 Fatma Girik Fatma Girik Actor · died at 79

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

This early Yeşilçam comedy, written by Bülent Oran, puts Sadri Alışık and Fatma Girik under one roof and carries the innocent, gentle humour of its day. A jealous husband, one small lie and suddenly three babies: the story makes no grand statements and simply follows the logic of situation comedy. The flustered husband is a part made to Sadri Alışık's measure, while Fatma Girik, voiced by Adalet Cimcoz, gains a grace of her own. Eyes used to today's pace may find it naive, but that naivety is precisely where the warmth of these films lives.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

The story is light: a wife with a fiercely jealous husband, one lie she tells and the baby muddle that follows. Grandparents will enjoy seeing familiar old faces. Still, a husband who won't even let his wife leave the house may look less funny and more troubling today. If you watch with children, it is worth talking about why that isn't okay. Overall, an old-fashioned comedy three generations can sit through together.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Fatoş'un Bebekleri can also be read as a small document of how marriage was imagined in the early 1960s, seen through comedy. A husband who forbids his wife to go out, and a restaurant owner who reports to him where she has eaten, are offered as material for laughs. From today's vantage point, what stands out is how ordinary that jealousy is made to seem. The pregnancy lie becomes the only leverage the wife has to save her marriage. The film makes no claim to critique anything, yet, perhaps unwittingly, it lays the household power relations of its time out in plain view.

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