Cinema
Ateşten Gömlek
Muhsin Ertuğrul · 1923
Synopsis
Ayşe loses her husband and her young son, killed during the occupation of Izmir; helped by a Levantine family, she makes her way to Istanbul, where she stays with her cousin Peyami and meets Commander İhsan. After the occupation of Istanbul, she flees to Anatolia with Peyami and joins İhsan's resistance unit, where she tends the wounded; Peyami and İhsan are both in love with her. Habertürk, which attributes the bereavement to the commander, also sums up the story as İhsan's love for the nurse Ayşe.
Context
The film, drawn from a novel serialised in 1922 in İkdam and written by the novelist Halide Edib Adıvar, was co-produced by Kemal and Şakir Seden and presented on 23 April 1923 at the Palas Sinema in Beyoğlu, for the third anniversary of the National Assembly. According to Habertürk, the novelist had demanded that the roles of Ayşe and Kezban be played by Turkish actresses: Bedia Muvahhit and Neyyire Neyir were thus the first Muslim actresses of the Turkish screen, the female roles until then having gone to Christians or Jews.
Who it is for
A silent film in Turkish, adapted from a novel about the national struggle; no recent screening has been reported.
Prizes and reception
According to Medyascope, the first Turkish film with actresses and the first feature film about the War of Independence.
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