Hello My Dear (2021)
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.
Director: Ulaş Tosun
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Arkadaş Z. Özger as |
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Ahmed Saka as Narrator |
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Ahmet İnam as |
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Akın Evren as |
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Cavit Kürnek as |
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Deniz Ziya Temeltaş as |
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Ertuğrul Kürkçü as |
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Eşber Yağmurdereli as |
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Halit Özboyacılar as |
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Hüseyin Peker as |
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İsmet Tokgöz as |
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Necla Zarakol as |
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Nejat Yetişir as |
| Directing | Ulaş Tosun | Director |
| Directing | Kaan Karataş | Assistant Director |
