Biyograficim
Şabaniye

Şabaniye

Movie · 1984 · 9 people

Shot in color on 35 mm, the musical comedy Şabaniye came from Kartal Tibet, who directed and produced this 1984 Turkish comedy for Tibet Film. Kemal Sunal and Çiğdem Tunç share the leading roles. The screenplay is by İhsan Yüce and Kartal Tibet, the music by Cahit Berkay and the cinematography by Çetin Tunca. A man disguised as a woman, a blood feud, a nightclub and a love story drive the comic confusion.

Kemal Sunal plays Şaban, who lives peacefully with his mother Hatice (Adile Naşit) until the family in a blood feud with them finds their trail. The men raid the house to kill Şaban; his mother spirits him away and, while they flee their pursuers, they take refuge in a nightclub. In the dressing room Hatice disguises her son as a woman, and Şaban becomes "Şabaniye". The ruse works, but Şehmuz (Erdal Özyağcılar) of the feuding family falls for Şabaniye and wants to marry her. When Şabaniye is taken to meet the family, the real Şaban falls for Şehmuz's sister Nazlı (Çiğdem Tunç). The double deception breeds comic misunderstandings.

Fono Film handled the film's preparation.

DirectorKartal Tibet
Production companyTibet Film
Şabaniye Şabaniye Şabaniye

Reactions

You can pick up to 3 reactions.

Cast

Adile Naşit Adile Naşit Film actor · died at 57 Hatice Aliye Rona Aliye Rona Actor · 1921 – 1996 Ayşe Erdal Özyağcılar Erdal Özyağcılar Actor · 78 years old Şehmus Kemal Sunal Kemal Sunal Film actor · died at 55 Şaban/Şabaniye Celal Yonat Celal Yonat Actor · 1922 – 1993 Kahya Çetin Başaran Actor · born 1940 Şehmuz's Man Ahmet Kostarika Ahmet Kostarika Actor · 1927 – 1994 Greengrocer Coşkun Göğen Coşkun Göğen Actor · 80 years old Man on Skates Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet Actor · died at 82 Himself

Also in the cast: Çiğdem Tunç (Nazlı), Reha Yurdakul, Turgut Boralı

Titles sharing this cast

More from this director

Through different eyes

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

Just seeing Kemal Sunal and Adile Naşit as mother and son warms the heart. Şabaniye is a classic comedy of confusion born from a man disguised as a woman, but Kemal Sunal's charm and the mother's tenderness give the story its heart. Cahit Berkay's music and the nightclub setting carry the flavor of the era. Erdal Özyağcılar's Şehmuz is a pleasure of its own. A film that leans more on endearing commotion than crude humor, and leaves you smiling.

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

Being a Kemal Sunal comedy, grandparents and kids alike will be ready to laugh. The disguise and the double romantic mix-up are the kind of humor the whole house can enjoy. But the story starts with a blood feud, a raid on the house and an intent to kill, and a nightclub and gambling are also in the picture. So very young children may need a little explanation. From primary-school age on, it works as family viewing.

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

Şabaniye turns a heavy social problem, the blood feud, into material for comedy. A tradition that forces a family to flee its home becomes, in the film, a source of comic confusion rather than drama, an approach seen in the popular cinema of the day, but from today's vantage point the seriousness of the subject slips somewhat into the background. On the other hand, humor built on a man dressing as a woman is an interesting example of how gender roles were played up and exaggerated at the time. Settings such as the nightclub, gambling dens and a farm carry traces of the era's entertainment and provincial life. Enjoyable, but a comedy best read through the lens of its own time.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader reviews are below.

Reviews (0)

Log in Log in to write a review.

Comments