Afife Jale (1987)

Name: Afife Jale
Genre: Drama
Released: 2023-08-06T10:25:10+02:00
Rating: 2.83

Drama | 100 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Turkey

Directed by: Sahin Kaygun

Starst: Müjde Ar, Tarık Tarcan and Macit Koper

IMDb score: 5,9 (132)

Releasedate: 1 January 1987

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Afife Jale plot

This film is based on a true story and it takes place around 1918. Afife becomes the first Turkish Muslim woman to be included in a theater company. She performed several times under the stage name Jale, but when the authorities issued a regulation banning Muslim women from performing, the theater company fired her. Afife Jale has never been able to perform since. Within her own environment - a respected Ottoman high-clothed family - she is seen as an outcast and became addicted to morphine. She died in a nursing home at the age of 32.