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Çöl Kartalı

1972 · 91 min

A sweeping old-fashioned desert melodrama where loyalty, love and loss collide under a hot sun.

Overview
Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • loyalty
  • betrayal
  • war
  • grief
Places
  • military
  • big city
  • wilderness
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance8
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
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Written by
Halit Refiğ, Bülent Oran, Memduh Ün
Starring
Cüneyt Arkın, Bahar Erdeniz, Süleyman Turan, Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Meral Zeren, Atıf Kaptan, Kazım Kartal, Sümer Tilmaç
Runtime
91 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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