The Wren

Feride loses her mother when she is small. Her father is an officer serving far away. The girl grows up with her aunt. She is put into a French school as a boarder. Because of her cheer and her mischief they call her Çalıkuşu, the wren. After she finishes school she grows close to her cousin Kamuran. The two of them are engaged before long. While the wedding is being prepared she learns something. Kamuran has been seeing another woman. Feride leaves the house on that. She goes off to Anatolia on her own. There she begins teaching. She moves from town to town. Her looks bring gossip she cannot get away from. The film was adapted from a novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin. Türkan Şoray and Kartal Tibet take the leads in Osman F. Seden’s Turkish film of 1966.