The Girl with the Red Scarf is a 1978 Turkish romantic drama film, directed by Atıf Yılmaz

Atif Yilmaz

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...

 based on the short story The Red Scarf by Cengiz Aytmatov, about a village girl who falls in love with a truck driver from Istanbul. The film, which won three awards, including second best film, at the 15th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival, was voted one of the 10 Best Turkish Films by the Ankara Cinema Association.

Plot

İlyas is a loner from İstanbul who comes to a remote village working as a truck driver. When his truck gets stuck in the mud, he meets a village girl and they fall in love and get married. Their child is born who they name Samet. İlyas frequently leaves the village for his job and Asya is left alone to care for their baby; this time İlyas leaves never to come back. Asya grows worried and takes off with Samet to search for her husband only to find out he is having an affair. On their journey, devastated mother and child meet a man, Cemşit, who takes pity on them and offers them food and shelter. Samet becomes increasingly fond of Cemşit and Asya begins to see that Samet thinks of him as a father. Then one day, İlyas suddenly returns and Asya is left to make a choice between him and Cemşit.

Awards

The film won the Best Director, Second Best Film and Best Cinematography awards at the 15th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, is the most important national film festival in Turkey...

. Additionally, Türkan Şoray was awarded the Best Actress award at the Tashkent Film Festival.

Cast

• Türkan Şoray
  Türkan Soray
  - Biography :Türkan Şoray was born to a government official father, Halit Şoray and her mother, Meliha Şoray, was a housewife. She has one younger sister Nazan, who is also an actress in her own right but is nowhere near as famous as Türkan. After the birth of her younger sister, Türkan's parents...
  
   - Asya
• Kadir İnanır
  Kadir Inanir
  Kadir İnanır is a popular Turkish film actor and director.- Biography :İnanır was born in 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in forty-three films since 1967 and appeared on television in "Bütün Çocuklarım" as Ali Yahya in 2004...
  
   - İlyas
• İhsan Yüce
  İhsan Yüce
  İhsan Yüce was a Turkish actor and occasionally, scenarist and director.-Biography:İhsan Yüce studied at İzmir Atatürk High School and later at the İktisadi ve Ticari İlimler Akademisi...
  
   - Yakup
• Ahmet Mekin - Cemşit
• Nurhan Nur - Gülşah
• Cengiz Sezici - Hamit
• Elif İnci - Samet