Şalvar Davası (1983)

Directed by

Kartal Tibet

Genre

comedy film, feminist fiction

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Women in a small Turkish town stir up trouble by refusing their husbands sex until they stop fighting over a pair of baggy pants. The film is a comedic retelling of an old Greek play about gender roles and marital power struggles.

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What happens

Şalvar Davası (English: The Case of the Baggy Pants) is a 1983 Turkish film directed by Kartal Tibet and starring Müjde Ar and Şener Şen. The film, a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, was the first starring role for Şen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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