If a Woman Loves (Kadın Severse) (translated)

Esat Mahmut Karakurt's novel of the same name, first published in 1939, is the basis of Kadın Severse ("If a Woman Loves"), a Yeşilçam melodrama in colour from 1968. The book was filmed once before, in black and white in 1955. Ülkü Erakalın directed, Safa Önal wrote the script and Akün Film produced. Türkân Şoray leads, with Mine Mutlu and Ekrem Bora.

The story opens at Uludağ, where the Istanbul psychiatrist Dr. Ferit (Ekrem Bora) goes for winter sports. He takes in Nevin (Mine Mutlu), a young woman lost in a blizzard and close to freezing, and the two quickly grow close. Next morning Nevin finds a wedding letter addressed to Ferit and flees, and leaves for England. Years pass, and the young mother Leyla (Türkân Şoray) consults Dr. Ferit by chance for her insomnia. Ferit seems to have forgotten Uludağ, is drawn to Leyla and wants to marry her. When Nevin returns from London the past resurfaces, this time touching her happiness and her mother's conscience, and the story moves toward a tragic end.

Orhan Kapkı shot it and Nevzat Pesen handled the music. The soundtrack uses well-known songs such as Moonlight Serenade and Strangers in the Night. The sexual drives treated at length in the novel and earlier film are barely discussed here.