Skip to content
The Couch Critic Logo
I Lost My Heart to a Turk

I Lost My Heart to a Turk

Original Title: Bir Türk'e Gönül Verdim

19691h 30m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1969

Runtime

1h 30m

Storyline

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.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Jan 1, 1969
Languages
Turkish
Director
Halit Refiğ
Halit Refiğ
Production
Erman Film
Erman Film
Production Countries
Turkey

Recommended Movies

Yellow Letters poster
Movie

The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine their way of life.

Yellow Letters

Mar 2026

About Dry Grasses poster
Movie

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

About Dry Grasses

Jul 2023

Something Useful poster
Movie

A chance meeting on a train in the Turkish countryside leads two women to a journey that shows them the importance of setting a path for one's life.

Something Useful

Apr 2017

Sibel poster
Movie

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

Sibel

Jan 2019

Tigertail poster
Movie

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Tigertail

Apr 2020