Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde

Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde
Directed byTunç Başaran
Written byHamdi Değirmencioğlu, L. Frank Baum (uncredited film adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
Produced byÖzdemir Birsel
StarringZeynep Değirmencioğlu
Süleyman Turan
Metin Serezli
Suna Selen
Ali Şen
Cemal Konca
CinematographyRafet Şiriner, Mustafa Yılmaz
Music byTorgut Ören
Distributed byRenkli
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
100 minutes (bootleg copies run 88 minutes with an obvious break in the material)
CountryTurkey
LanguageTurkish

Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (Little Ayşe and the Magic Dwarfs in the Land of Dreams) is a 1971 film by Turkish film director Tunç Başaran, an uncredited and very close adaptation by Hamdi Değirmencioğlu of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film was produced by Özdemir Birsel for Hisar (Citadel) Film. It is one of nearly forty films featuring Zeynep Değirmencioğlu as Ayşecik, many of which, like this one, were uncredited adaptations of famous stories, for example, Sinderella Külkedisi (Cinderella) (Süreyya Duru, 1971), Hayat Sevince Güzel [literally, "Loving makes life beautiful"] (Pollyanna) (Temel Gürsu, 1971), and Pamuk Prenses ve 7 Cüceler (Snow White) (Ertem Göreç, 1970).