The Girl with the Red Scarf
8.4
“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.
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Cast
14 people
Türkan Şoray
Asya
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Kadir İnanır
İlyas
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Asya's Mother
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Can
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Atıf Yılmaz Director · Ali Özgentürk Screenplay Chinghiz Aitmatov Author
First release November 18, 1977 · Produced in Türkiye · Original title Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım
Production
Yeşilçam Film
Production
Türkiye
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Original title
Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım
Original language
Turkish
Spoken on screen
Turkish
Release dates
Türkiye · November 18, 1977
Limited theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Kyrgyzstan
September 2, 1978 · Premiere · Toshkent Xalqaro Kinofestivali
Türkiye
July 1, 1978 · Premiere · 15. Altın Portakal Film Festivali
November 1, 1978 · Theatrical
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