The story of two male friends who are Pertev and Vasfi. Pertev who believes that the marriage always brings about evil things and women are coarse and ignorant stringently discusses with his brother in law Ferit by getting support from Vasfi who also believes in and support martial infidelity since unlike them Ferit believes the sanctity of marriage.
Mehmet Rauf, Sedat Simavi
Turkey
The Architectural Cynicism of Pençe To witness Pençe (1917) is to step into a volatile period of Ottoman intellectual transition, where the medium of film began to grapple with the seismic shifts in domestic morality. Directed by the visionary Sedat Simavi and adapted from the sharp-tongued play by Mehmet Rauf, thi...
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Sedat Simavi
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" The Architectural Cynicism of Pençe To witness Pençe (1917) is to step into a volatile period of Ottoman intellectual transition, where the medium of film began to grapple with the seismic shifts in domestic morality. Directed by the visionary Sedat Simavi and adapted from the sharp-tongued play by Mehmet Rauf, this film is not merely a drama; it is a surgical dissection of the male ego under the guise of social critique. The narrative’s heartbeat resides in the friction between Pertev and t..."
1918 · IMDb 5.8
Sedat Simavi
