GENRE: Documentary / Biography
RUNTIME: 113’
LANGUAGE: Turkish
STARRING: Arif Keskiner, Zülfü Livaneli, Ara Güler
NARRATOR: Halil Ergün
DIRECTOR: Aydın Orak
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Orak Film
The whole life of the world-famous writer Yaşar Kemal, from birth to death, is brought to the screen through his own words and with the narrations of his close friends. The turning points of the legendary writer's life are exhibited in an epic narrative style. Yaşar Kemal's previously unpublished archive footage, audio recordings compiled from hundreds of hours of sources, and thousands of pages of documents were used. The Legend of Yaşar Kemal is portrayed in a cinematographic way, with the struggle of a giant plane tree, his literature, his life and his attitude towards the events that left their mark on the century.
