Romantic (Romantik) (translated)

Sinan Çetin directed the Turkish film Romantik, which mixes emotional drama with adventure and opened on 2 March 2007. Çetin wrote the screenplay with Galip Tekin and Gülin Tokat. Plato Film produced it, with Sinan Çetin, Rebekka Haas, Cemil Çetin and Berna Parlak among the producers. It runs close to two hours, with music by Pamela Spence and Teoman.

The story starts with two close friends, Ömer and Gökhan, who both fall for the same girl, Yasemin. Because she never says a word, they take her for mute. When Ömer is unwillingly pulled into a murder, he has to flee. His closest friend, who was meant to pass his letters on to Yasemin, keeps them back and ends up with her. Years later Ömer returns, and a reckoning is unavoidable. Okan Bayülgen plays Ömer, Yasemin Kozanoğlu plays Yasemin and Teoman plays Gökhan. David Hemmings (Sadun), Semih Sergen (Mazhar), Esin Moralıoğlu (Esin), Nail Kırmızıgül (Çivi) and Selahattin Duman (the commissioner) also appear.

The film stands out for its structure. The audience first sides with the hero and hopes he wins the girl. Then the narrative drops him and follows the man we took for the villain; it becomes unclear whom to believe, and viewers start doubting what they believed all along. Kamil Çetin and Rebekka Haas share the cinematography.