Top Cast
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Yelda Reynaud
Hülya Aziz
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Halil Ergün
Onkel - Kemal Aziz
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Nur Sürer
Ayşe
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Füsun Demirel
Tante - Gönül Aziz
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Özay Fecht
Tante
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Necmettin Çobanoğlu
Vater
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Mustafa Suphi Baltacı
Marionettenspieler
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Ali Karagöz
Dr. Evren
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Hikmet Karagöz
Tankwart
Overview
Hulya is a young Turkish woman torn between two cultures. Forced to live with her uncle in Turkey, she leaves this house: she wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school, not so long ago.
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