A Gift from God (2019)
Journalist Jørgen Lorentzen was in Turkey when the coup attempt happened in 2016 and followed the event the whole evening. In the middle of the night one neighbour said: “This is not a real coup, I have experienced many coups and know what a coup is”. From that moment Lorentzen started the investigation of the event and its aftermath. This documentary is a critical analysis of the coup attempt in Turkey throughout the night between the 15th and 16th of July 2016.
Directors: Jørgen Lorentzen, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen.
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Can Atakli as Himself |
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Henri Barkey as Himself |
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Fethullah Gülen as Himself |
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Birgül Koçal as Herself |
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Jørgen Lorentzen as Narrator |
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Nevşin Mengü as Herself |
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Doğu Perinçek as Himself |
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Ahmet Sik as Himself |
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Sedat Tekin as Himself |
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Sevkiye Tekin as Herself |
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Merdan Yanardag as Himself |
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Jørgen Lorentzen | Director |
| Production | Jørgen Lorentzen | Producer |
| Crew | Anders Hoft | Cinematography |
| Sound | Wei Ting Zeng | Music |
| Writing | Jørgen Lorentzen | Writer |
| Directing | Nefise Özkal Lorentzen | Director |
| Editing | Morten Haslerud | Editor |
| Sound | Frode Løes Hvatum | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Simon Matthew Jones-Tyridal | Music |