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Time to Love (1965)

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Original title
Sevmek Zamanı
Directed by
Metin Erksan
Genre
drama film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 100 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A poor painter working in an Istanbul villa falls in love with a photograph of a woman. He pursues the woman from the photograph and grapples with his feelings.

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What happens

Time to Love (Turkish: Sevmek Zamanı) is a 1965 Turkish drama film, produced, co-written and directed by Metin Erksan, featuring Müşfik Kenter as a poor painter who falls in love with a photograph of a woman (Sema Özcan) while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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