The Girl with the Red Scarf (Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım)

Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım (The Girl with the Red Scarf) is a 1977 Turkish drama film directed by Atıf Yılmaz and written by Ali Özgentürk. Adapted from the 1961 work by Kyrgyz author Chingiz Aitmatov, with an original score by Cahit Berkay, the film stars Türkan Şoray, Kadir İnanır and Ahmet Mekin, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Turkish cinema.

The story follows Asya, a village girl, and İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, whose love blossoms in a village where a dam is under construction. When İlyas falls into depression after his work collapses and abandons the family, Asya takes to the road with her young son Samet and builds a new life with the kind-hearted Cemşit, who opens his home to them. İlyas's return years later forces Asya to choose between her great love and the man who stood by her in hard times. The film won three awards, including Second Best Film, at the 15th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, and earned Şoray the Best Actress award at the 1978 Tashkent Film Festival.