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Ablaze (Alev Alev)

Ablaze (Alev Alev) (translated)

Movie · 1984 · 8 people

Halit Refiğ directed the Turkish film Alev Alev in 1984. A colour 35 mm production by Erler Film, it blends drama and romance with a thriller plot. Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the script and Türker İnanoğlu produced. Love, betrayal, ambition, jealousy and conspiracy are its main ingredients.

Murat (Tarık Akan), a handsome yacht captain, and the beautiful Alev (Gülşen Bubikoğlu) are preparing to marry. When the captain of the wealthy businessman Şahin's (Cüneyt Arkın) yacht falls ill, Şahin's niece and general manager Ümran (Çiğdem Tunç) looks for a replacement. Needing money, Murat accepts a four-month job abroad. While he is away Alev learns she is pregnant, and on the voyage Ümran, who has fallen for Murat, spends a night with him. Jealousy drives Ümran to hurt herself and Murat marries her in desperation. Alev reads of it in the newspaper, returns to Istanbul, ends the pregnancy, becomes a famous model and enters Şahin's circle.

When the former lovers draw close again, Ümran grows suspicious and follows them. In the final part, set in Bodrum, a trap laid by uncle and niece leads to a bitter end. The music is by İzzet Öz, the cinematography by Çetin Gürtop, and Hulusi Kentmen appears as Uncle Asım.

DirectorHalit Refiğ
Production companyErler Film

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Tarık Akan Tarık Akan Actor · died at 66 Murat Gülşen Bubikoğlu Gülşen Bubikoğlu Actor · 71 years old Alev Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Şahin Koral Kamran Usluer Kamran Usluer Actor · died at 67 Hulusi Kentmen Hulusi Kentmen Actor · died at 82 Asım Şemsi İnkaya Şemsi İnkaya Actor · 87 years old Bülent Zafer Ergin Zafer Ergin Actor · 84 years old Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Actor · died at 95

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Tarık Akan, Gülşen Bubikoğlu and Cüneyt Arkın in one film, directed by Halit Refiğ from an Erdoğan Tünaş script. A cast that brings together such big names of Yeşilçam is reason enough to be curious. Love, betrayal and jealousy are the best-loved ingredients of Turkish melodrama, and it is lovely to have İzzet Öz's music accompanying those feelings. Seeing Hulusi Kentmen as Uncle Asım is like greeting an old friend. Yet piling one painful event on another strains belief at times; you may find yourself missing the simplicity of the classic melodramas.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

This is not a family film. The story has heavy subjects such as betrayal, self-harm and ending a pregnancy. It's built on love and jealousy, and the story heads somewhere bitter. I wouldn't watch it with children, and for teenagers it raises things you'd need to talk about afterwards. Adults who like old Turkish melodramas can watch it among themselves.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Alev Alev shows how money, status and ambition shape love in the mid-eighties. The class gap between a yacht captain who, short of money, takes a four-month job abroad and the circle of a wealthy businessman is the real engine of the story. Alev turning into a famous model and entering Şahin's circle is an interesting sign of the era's routes upward, and of a woman gaining power through visibility. Learning about a marriage from the newspaper is a reminder of the press's role in private lives. Setting the final part in Bodrum seems to reflect the years when coastal towns were becoming playgrounds for the well-off.

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