The Girl with the Red Scarf

The Girl with the Red Scarf

Was that love? What is love?

1977 · 86 min · ★ 7.7 · Drama, Romance

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

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