Nightingale of the East (Şark Bülbülü) (translated)

Kartal Tibet directed Şark Bülbülü (Nightingale of the East), a 1979 Turkish comedy. İhsan Yüce and Osman F. Seden wrote the script, Selim Soydan produced it, and it was made by Fatoş Film and Gülşah Film. It was shot in colour on 35 mm and runs 89 minutes. Kemal Sunal stars as the young man with the soulful voice of the title.

The story begins when Zülfo Ağa (Sırrı Elitaş), who lords it over his village, sets his eye on Hatice (Ayşen Cansev), who has been promised to Şaban (Kemal Sunal) since the cradle. Zülfo has Şaban driven out of the village, and with a large bride price demanded for Hatice, Şaban must go to Istanbul to raise it. In the big city he drifts from job to job until his voice makes him a famous folk singer. He returns to his village as an ağa himself and avenges what he went through. The film tells the familiar village-to-city migration story of those years through comic situations.

The cast also features Ayşen Gruda (Fethi's sister), Dinçer Çekmez (Fethi), Osman Alyanak (Haydar), Selim Naşit and Yadigar Ejder (Mazlum), İhsan Yüce (the headman), Yavuz Karakaş (Arap Cemal) and Bahri Ateş (Şıh Hazretleri).