Abdullah N. Baysu

Movies

Ezo Gelin
Music
Feyzi Tuna's 1973 adaptation (the first in color) of the famous legend of Ezo the Bride, a real person who lived in the south eastern part of Turkey, close to Syrian border, in early 20th century.
I Lost My Heart to a Turk
Music
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.
Red River, Black Sheep
Music
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.