Cinema
Mürebbiye
Ahmet Fehim · 1919
Synopsis
Anjel, a Parisian woman, enters the house of Dehri Efendi in Istanbul as a governess, according to Listelist; she makes the men of the house fall in love with her and sows disorder in the family. CNN Türk summarises the film as the love affairs of a seductive French governess in a great Ottoman residence, whose inhabitants she all seduces. Ahmet Fehim, who directed it, plays the master of the house, Dehri Efendi, himself.
Context
The film was shot in 1919 for a society of war-disabled veterans, which had taken over the equipment of the army's cinematographic service, according to İİENSTİTÜ. It is drawn from a novel of 1898, a satire in the form of a comedy, by Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar. The general commanding the French occupation forces banned its screening in Anatolia, being unable to accept that a Frenchwoman should be shown as a woman of loose morals, according to CNN Türk; Listelist adds that the ban was circumvented and that the role of Anjel went to an actress named Kalitea.
Who it is for
A silent film in Turkish, known through the accounts that remain of it; no recent screening has been reported.
Prizes and reception
The first Turkish film to be hit by censorship, according to CNN Türk and biyografiler.com, because of the image it gave of a Frenchwoman.
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