Her name is Vasfiye
Her Name is Vasfiye

Director: Atıf Yılmaz
Producer: Cengiz Ergun, Leyla Özalp
Screenplay: Barış Pirhasan (adapted from five stories in Necati Cumalı's book titled "I Can't Sleep While the Moon Grows")
Year: 1985
Director of photography: Orhan Oğuz
Music: Atilla Özdemiroğlu
Cast: Müjde Ar, Aytaç Arman, Yılmaz Zafer, Macit Koper, Erol Durak, Levent Yılmaz
Production Company: Focus Film
Color: Colorful
Country: Türkiye
Vision date:
Subject: Vasfiye, who marries Emin, whom she has been in love with since childhood, realizes that she married a selfish man. He establishes a relationship with a needleman named Rüstem, and when Emin finds out about this, he stabs Rüstem. Meanwhile, Vasfiye marries Hamza and Emin follows them again.

Notes about the movie:
By describing a woman's relationship with four men separately, the exploitation of women in male-female relationships is explained. With the film, the image of a free woman in cinema is once again concretized.

Contents related to the movie:
The image of a free woman in Turkish cinema after 1980: Türkan Şoray and Müjde Ar. Uluyağcı, Canan. (2002). Fiction Anadolu University Faculty of Communication Sciences International Refereed Journal of Communication, 19(19), 1-8.
Examination of the films It's called Vasfiye and The Messy Bed in the context of Carl Rogers' personality theory. Akveran, I. O., & Aytekin, P. E. (2020). SineFilozofi, 130-147.
Memory Illusions and Gender in the Movies “Her Name is Vasfiye” and “Aaahh Belinda”. Habacı, N. (2023). Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 5(1), 6-22.
Cinematic Interpretations of Necati Cumalı in His Name: Vasfiye and Uzun Bir Gece. Taranç, R., & Tomak, M. (2021). ARTS: Artuklu Journal of Arts and Humanities, (Necati Cumalı Special Issue), 178-192.

Awards:
23rd Antalya Film Festival (1986) “Best Third Film” “Best Director” “Best Actress”
Istanbul International Cinema Days (1986) “Dr. Nejat Eczacıbaşı Foundation Award” (2 Million TL)
Nokta Magazine Cinema Days “Best Film” “Best Director” (Atıf Yılmaz) “Best Screenplay” (Barış Pirhasan) “Best Actress” (Müjde Ar) “Best Musician” Atilla Özdemiroğlu
Cinema critics “Top 10 Films” (1986) “Movie of the Year” “Best Screenwriter” “Best Actress” “Best Composer” (Atilla Özdemiroğlu)

Source:
Uluyağcı, C. (2002). The image of a free woman in Turkish cinema after 1980: Türkan Şoray and Müjde Ar. Fiction Anadolu University Faculty of Communication Sciences International Refereed Journal of Communication, 19(19), 1-8.
Özgüç, Agâh. (2012). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Movies. Istanbul: Horizon International.
Özgüç, Agâh. (2014). Dictionary of Turkish Films 1914-2014. Istanbul: Republic of Turkey Culture and Tourism Ministry.