My Lying Sweetheart (Yalancı Yarim) (translated)

Ertem Eğilmez directed Yalancı Yarim (My Lying Sweetheart), a 1973 Turkish comedy. A sentimental comedy, it deals with the comic consequences of a lie that keeps growing and with the love that comes out of it. Sadık Şendil wrote the screenplay and Nahit Ataman produced. Made by Arzu Film in color, it opened on December 1, 1973, with music by Metin Bükey and photography by Erdoğan Engin.

The hero is Ferdi (Tarık Akan), the carefree son of a wealthy family, whose only fear in life is his older brother Mahmut (Metin Akpınar). Alev (Emel Sayın) is the daughter of a market vendor who secretly loves Ferdi, whom she sees now and then from a distance. One day Mahmut turns up unannounced to check on his brother and meet his fiancée, but there is no fiancée. Ferdi looks for someone to play the part, and the only volunteer is Alev. The lie told to fool the family gradually turns into real love, and events take a comic turn.

The cast also includes Münir Özkul (Derviş), Halit Akçatepe (Nuri), Zeki Alasya (Hüsnü), Hulusi Kentmen (Derviş Başak), Mürüvvet Sim (Ziynet) and Kemal Sunal (Kemal).