A Turkish '70s romance where age gaps hit different — and not in a good way.
Ayşe has a traffic accident. Ali and his friend who hit Ayşe take her to the hospital and take care of her. Soon Ali and Ayşe become close, but Ali is older than Ayşe and his desires are very different. One day Ali calls Ayşe to his house and tries to have intercourse with her and she leaves him...
Acting
Zeynep Değirmencioğlu's fragile, trapped performance as teenage Ayşe.
Direction
Osman F. Seden's unflinching gaze at predatory 'kindness'.
Director
Osman F. Seden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s Yeşilçam's 'social problem' films, often critiquing modernization while accidentally revealing its own era's blind spots.
Zeynep Değirmencioğlu was already famous as 'Ayşecik' in family films; this 'adult' role was deliberate image destruction.
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