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Director:
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Yavuz Turgul (writer)
Release Date:
7 January 2005 (Turkey) more
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Idealist Nazim returns home to his family in Istanbul after a 15-year gap away teaching in a remote Turkish village in eastern Turkey... more | add synopsis
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Typical Yavuz Turgul movie (+budget, -subtlety) more (21 total)

Cast

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Meltem Cumbul ... Dünya
Sener Sen ... Nazim
Timuçin Esen ... Halil
Güven Kiraç ... Memet
Devin Özgür Cinar ... Piraye
Erdal Tosun ... Hasmet
Sümer Tilmaç ... Takoz
Ecenaz Kiziltan ... Melek
Inci Sen ... Nurse
Aynur Dogan ... Herself
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Mübeccel Vardar ... Berrin
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lovelorn (International: English title)
Yürek yarasi (Turkey: Turkish title)
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Runtime:
142 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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27 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
Typical Yavuz Turgul movie (+budget, -subtlety), 13 January 2005
7/10
Author: ulnoyman from United States and Turkey

Gonul Yarasi is an above average movie in the tradition of classical Turkish drama. Idealist elementary school teacher Nazim (named after the great communist poet Nazim Hikmet) retires and returns home, Istanbul, after a 15 year term in the poor, forgotten Kurdish-Alevite village in Eastern Turkey. Politely ignored by his children who secretly despise him since he chose his ideal over his family long ago, he begins a new (night)life as a taxi driver. There he meets a fallen single mother who works as a "singer" in a sleazy night club. He takes the mother and her daugther in to protect them from the stalker ex-husband, falls in love with her, and the drama unfolds.

Yavuz Turgul, a master of storytelling, is not at his best, and the film cannot surpass his former masterpieces such as 'Eskiya' or 'Golge Oyunu' - though the movie is among the best of the season. Sener Sen, Meltem Cumbul and Guven Kirac give solid performances, but Timucin Esen proves outstanding with his portrayal of the multi-faceted, psychologically unstable ex-husband. The film, in the Yavuz Turgul tradition, inevitably ends with the tragedy-redemption-hope sequence.

Turgul likes to give subliminal social and political messages in his movies, but he is less subtle in this one.

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