LOVELORN aka GONUL YARASI

Year: 2005
UK: Diva Film
Cast: Sener Sen, Meltem Cumbul, Timuçin Esen, Guven Kirac, Devin Özgun Çinar, Sumer Tilmaç, Erdal Tosun
Director: Yavuz Turgul
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish (English subtitles)
UK: 142 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and brief moderate violence
UK Release Date: 28 January 2005

(in Turkish)

Synopsis

Idealist Nazim (Sener Sen) returns home to his family in Istanbul after a 15-year gap away teaching in a remote Kurdish village in eastern Turkey. Becoming a taxi driver he meets a single mother who works in a sleazy club and becomes embroiled in her plight - a troublesome ex-husband who won't leave her alone - and starts to fall in love with her.