在这部红色河流，黑色绵羊剧情片中,同样改编自土耳其诗人希克梅特的作品，这部黑白片要比后来的《My Love, My Sorrow》（1978）更出色。
Producer-Director Osman Seden goes on shooting his starpacked features; actress Turkan Soray, backed by the ruling star system, creates her own myth with such films as Tapilacak Kadin (A Woan to Adore) and Olumsuz Kadin (The Immortal Women); actor Ayhan Isik, the first "theorician" of the star system, mantains his power over all producers; Yilmaz Guney, the screen's lumpen hero and the antithesis of the good looking young actor, places himself against the conventional archetypes first with works bearing the signature of directors like Atif Yilmaz and Lutfi Akad. In Akad's Kurbanlik Katil (The Victim Killer) and Kizilirmak - Karakoyun (Red River Black Sheep) as well as in Atif Yilmaz's Balatli Arif (Arif from Balat) and Kozanoglu Guney confirms his personal acting style.
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.
