Never My Soul! is a 2001 Turkish film by Kutluğ Ataman.[1] The film, with a duration of about two hours, is about Ceyhan Firat, a Turkish trans woman residing in Switzerland who makes her living as a sex worker.[2] Firat pretends to be Turkish actress Türkan Şoray. The film's title refers to a common saying in Turkish film: a girl who is being targeted by a rapist may tell him that he could have her body but never her soul.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Never My Soul - single screen version" (Archive). Kutluğ Ataman Official Website. Retrieved on August 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Smith, Roberta. "ART IN REVIEW; Kutlug Ataman -- 'Never My Soul!'" (Archive). The New York Times. July 12, 2002. Retrieved on August 29, 2015.

Further reading edit

  • Çakirlar, Cüneyt. "Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutluğ Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001)" (Chapter 15). In: Pullen, Christopher. LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan. 29 February 2012. ISBN 0230353517, 9780230353510.

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