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Original Title: Aşk, Ateş ve Anarşi Günleri: Türk Sinemateki ve Onat Kutlar
Status
Released
Release
2023
Runtime
1h 16m
In 1961, the young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After discovering his passion for cinema at the Cinémathèque Française he decides to found a Cinematheque in Istanbul to bring the world of art cinema to Turkey. Although the Turkish Sinematek came to a tragic end in 1980, it quickly established an intellectual film culture that continues to influence Turkey today.
21 Cast Members
Mete Akalın
Self
Cevat Çapan
Self
Atilla Dorsay
Self
Burçak Evren
Self
Mustafa Göçmen
Self
Onat Kutlar
Self (archive footage)
Seza Kutlar Aksoy
Self
Filiz Kutlar
Self
Mazlum Kutlar
Self
Ali Özgentürk
Self
Nijat Özön
Self (archive footage)
Adnan Özyalçıner
Self
Ömer Pekmez
Self
Vecdi Sayar
Self
Aydın Sayman
Self
Giovanni Scognamillo
Self (archive footage)
Ahmet Soner
Self
Jak Şalom
Self
Rekin Teksoy
Self (archive footage)
Hülya Uçansu
Self