Break the Chains of Your Heart (Kır Gönlünün Zincirini) (translated)

Kır Gönlünün Zincirini (“Break the Chains of Your Heart”) is the work of Şerif Gören, who directed it as an arabesque musical drama. The screenplay is by Erdoğan Tünaş, the cinematography by Erdoğan Engin, and the producers were Selim Soydan and Emrah Şimşit for Gülşah Film, with Yeni Lale Film credited for preparation. The colour 35 mm film runs about 87 minutes and blends music, drama, arabesque and sentiment. Sources date it to 1981 or 1980. Orhan Gencebay, a well-known name in arabesque music, plays the singer at its centre.

The story follows the singer Orhan, who learns on his way back from a tour that his sister Gülcan has taken her own life. Erman, the son of a rich businessman, had deceived her with a promise of marriage. Orhan first rises to fame, then draws close to Erman’s sister Ebru. His plan does not go as intended.

Orhan Gencebay plays Orhan and Müjde Ar plays Ebru. Gülçin Feray is Gülcan and Eray Özbal is Erman. Sümer Tilmaç plays Haşim, Ajlan Aktuğ Keçi Mehmet, Seyfettin Karadayı Ebru’s father and Nuri Tuğ Orhan’s father, with Garibe Gündem as Orhan’s mother. The film is remembered among the music-driven melodramas Gencebay brought to the screen in the early 1980s.