Posted by: İlhan Sami Çomak

2016, Turkish. Directed by Sertaç Yıldız & Çiğdem Mazlum.

A documentary on the life of the poet İlhan Sami Çomak.

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that İlhan spent in prison and his family’s experience of those years without him. The narrative is constructed through the letters İlhan wrote and aims to describe his life, his emotions and longings. The film constructs İlhan’s history through a chronology in the prison but refrains from restricting it only to a “prisoner’s quest for justice”, and rather tells a story of the situations he finds himself in over the years and his emotions and their equivalents in life.

Runtime

1h 8m

Post-credits

None listed

Language

Turkish

Rated

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