Lying Emine (Yatık Emine) (translated)

Ömer Kavur directed Yatık Emine, a 1974 Turkish drama and his first feature film. Shot in color on 35 mm, it runs 86 minutes and opened in theaters on September 1, 1974. It is an adaptation of the story of the same name in Refik Halit Karay's Memleket Hikâyeleri (1919).

The film tells the story of a woman named Emine who is exiled to a small Anatolian town. Necla Nazır plays Emine and Serdar Gökhan plays the male nurse Server. Many townspeople and local figures appear in the story: Bilal İnci plays the petition writer Deli İsmail, Mahmut Hekimoğlu the commander, Nubar Terziyan Dimitri, Renan Fosforoğlu the district governor, and Osman Alyanak the baker Mustafa. The cast also includes Güzin Özipek (Tahir's wife), Zeki Alpan (Uncle Tahir), Atilla Ergün (Rıza), Ahmet Turgutlu (the sergeant) and Müşerref Çapın (a female prisoner). The film is dubbed: Tijen Par voices Necla Nazır, Pekcan Koşar voices Serdar Gökhan, and Şener Şen voices Osman Çağlar.

The screenplay was written by Ömer Kavur and Turgut Özakman together, and the producers were Necdet Barlık and Duran Tantekin. The music is by Arif Erkin and the cinematography by Renato Fair. Günaydın Film is credited with production and Barlık Film with operations.