A Turkish literary giant gets the chaotic documentary treatment he never asked for.
A film on Haldun Taner, a respectable, democratic intellectual and a brilliant author of political essays, various genres and kinds of literary texts and especially theatre plays all of which have been a masterpiece in Turkey art history.
Acting
Erkan Can and Metin Akpınar bringing theatrical gravitas to talking heads.
Direction
Selçuk Metin's chaotic energy matches his subject's polymath chaos.
Director
Selçuk Metin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taner's 1968 play 'Keşanlı Ali Destanı' remains a Turkish national treasure, though this doc barely scratches its revolutionary staging.
Engin Altan Düzyatan appears pre-'Diriliş: Ertuğrul' fame—spot the future Ottoman heartthrob in intellectual mode.
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