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The Girl with the Red Scarf

Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım

1977 · 1h 26m · Drama, Romance · Turkey

Was that love? What is love?

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

Directed by
Atıf Yılmaz
Written by
Ali Özgentürk
Based on the novel by
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Starring
Türkan Şoray, Kadir İnanır, Ahmet Mekin, Hülya Tuğlu
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