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The Police After Me

Turkey, 2021, 6 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish captioned, English subtitled


Director:  Kayahan Kaya

Screenplay: M. Şeref Özsoy, Kayahan Kaya

Music: Derya Türkan 

Istanbul, 1950. In an atmosphere where freedom of thought was restricted after the Second World War, every step of poets, writers and artists was followed by the police. Orhan Veli, one of the founders of the Garip movement in Turkish poetry, is one of the names who is followed.