''Kırık Hayatlar'' ''(Broken Lives)'' is a 1965 Turkish drama film, directed by

Halit Refiğ Halit Refiğ (5 March 1934 – 11 October 2009) was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials. He is considered to be the pioneer of the N ...

and starring

Belgin Doruk Belgin Doruk (28 June 1936 – 26 March 1995) was a popular Turkish film actress. Biography Belgin Doruk was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1936. While she continued her education in a high school she took part in a competition and became first alon ...

Cüneyt Arkın Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (8 September 1937 – 28 June 2022), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, was a Turkish film actor, director, producer and martial artist. Having starred in somewhere around 300 movies and TV series, he is wid ...

, and Nebahat Çehre. It is based on the novel with the same name from

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil (also spelled Halit and Uşakizâde) (; 1866 – 27 March 1945) was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright. A part of the ''Edebiyat-ı Cedide'' ("New Literature") movement of the late Ottoman Empire, he was the founder o ...

. Another version TV series was released in 2021, starring Meltem Akçöl, Murat Onuk and Burcu Almeman. In Orhan Pamuk's novel ''The Museum of Innocence'' the main character finances a movie based on ''Broken Lives'', which is described as "a tale of love and family ties in the Ottoman mansions of the Westernized bourgeoisie and the imperial elite".

Life and writings

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* 1965 films Turkish drama films 1965 drama films Films directed by Halit Refiğ Turkish black-and-white films {{Turkey-film-stub