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The Girl with the Red Scarf

1977 · 86 min

A heartfelt, slow-burning romance that turns painful, leaving you aching for the heroine as she rebuilds her life.

Tagline
Was that love? What is love?
Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • family
  • redemption
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance8
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Atıf Yılmaz
Written by
Ali Özgentürk
Starring
Türkan Şoray, Kadir İnanır, Ahmet Mekin, Hülya Tuğlu, Nurhan Nur, Cengiz Sezici, İhsan Yüce, Elif İnci
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
86 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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