''Şalvar Davası'' (English: The Case of the Baggy Pants) is a 1983 Turkish film directed by

Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet (27 March 1937 – 1 July 2021) was a Turkish actor, academic, director, screenwriter and producer. A prominent lead actor of classic films in the Turkish cinema, he has played a wide range of characters in various genres, including ...

and starring Müjde Ar and

Şener Şen Şener Şen (born 26 December 1941) is a Turkish film and theatre actor who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in '' Muhsin Bey'' (1985) and '' Gönül Yarası'' (2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for ' ...

. The film, a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek play ''

Lysistrata ''Lysistrata'' ( or ; Attic Greek: , ''Lysistrátē'', ) is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city ...

'' by

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek comedy, comic playwright from Classical Athens, Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving play ...

, was the first starring role for Şen.

Cast

* Müjde Ar as Elif * Sener Sen as Ömer Aga * Halil Ergün as Recep *Ihsan Yüce as Halil Emmi *Tuncay Akça as Osman *Sevil Ustekin as Hatice *Pembe Mutlu

Plot

Elif returns to her native village after her husband dies. When she comes back, she finds that nothing has changed. The village men still make their wives work hard while they sit in the cafes and gossip. Elif inspires the women to fight back against this unfair treatment, and they vow not to have sex with their husbands until they start working. Meanwhile, Elif clashes with her old flame Ömer Aga.

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* Films set in Turkey Films shot in Turkey Turkish comedy films 1983 films 1980s Turkish-language films Films based on Lysistrata Films scored by Attila Özdemiroğlu {{Turkey-film-stub