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Merhaba Canım

Movie - 58mins

Documentary

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period it was first published. Considered to be in defiance of heteronormativity, the said poem includes references to the poet’s personality, his family, his relationship to the society, and his “unexpected” death, which came three years after its publication. Today, 50 years after it was written, the documentary follows these same lines in the poem utilising cinematic elements. The documentary also rediscovers the poetics; reaches out to the family, the comrades, the friendships, departing from the official historical accounts, cognizant of his experience of otherness, in pursuit of the “lost” portrait of Arkadaş Z. Özger.

Rating: 8

Cast:

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Halit

Özboyacılar

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Hüseyin

Peker

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İsmet

Tokgöz

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Necla

Zarakol

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Nejat

Yetişir

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Arkadaş

Z.

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Ahmed

Saka

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Ahmet

İnam

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Akın

Evren

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Cavit

Kürnek

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Deniz

Ziya

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Ertuğrul

Kürkçü

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Eşber

Yağmurdereli

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Halit

Özboyacılar

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Hüseyin

Peker

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İsmet

Tokgöz

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Necla

Zarakol

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Nejat

Yetişir

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Arkadaş

Z.

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Ahmed

Saka

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Ahmet

İnam

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Akın

Evren

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Cavit

Kürnek