Film

I Lost My Heart to a Turk

1969 · 1h 30m · Drama

IMDb

6.5

I Lost My Heart to a Turk is the story of a German woman Eva Bender, who is deserted by a Turkish worker in Germany five years earlier and left alone with a child Zafer. Eva's father refuses his illegitimate grandson from a Turkish worker. She comes to Kayseri, Turkey with her illegitimate child to seek her lover, Ismail Acar. Ismail is now working at Sümer Cotton Cloth factory as a mechanic and establishing a small private business. Eva finds her ex-lover Ismail who now lives with his wife and children. Humiliated by her ex-lover, the German woman receives assistance by another Turkish worker, Mustafa.

Ahmet Mekin

Mustafa

Eva Bender

Eva

Bilâl İnci

Osman Alyanak

Aynur Akarsu

Seden Kızıltunç

Kazım Kartal

• Halit RefiğScreenplay · Director

Release date

January 1, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

Turkish

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama