Film

Leyla and Mecnun

1983 · 1h 35m · Romance

IMDb

5.6

A fortune-teller reveals the Sultan that his daughter will get married to somebody poor, born on the same day with her. So, the Sultan gets all the baby boys born on the same day are killed and only Kadir is saved. Kadir and Leyla grow up together. Leyla wants to marry him but the Sultan refuses this idea. He orders Kadir to be killed, yet Kadir survives fatally wounded. Leyla finds Kadir's place where he is kept as a prisoner. As they escape they get caught. Leyla dies and Kadir who has lost her loved one goes to the desert with the image of Leyla alive in his heart.

Orhan Gencebay

Mecnun

Gülşen Bubikoğlu

Leyla

Yılmaz Köksal

Emel Tümer

Hüseyin Peyda

Hayati Hamzaoğlu

Turgut Özatay

Raik Alnıaçık

Aslan Altın

Abdurrahman Palay

Gözdem Görenler

Merih Ermakastar

Giray Alpan

Oktar Durukan

İhsan Gedik

Kudret Karadağ

• Halit RefiğDirector
• Fuat ÖzlüerScreenplay

Release date

January 1, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

Turkish

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Romance