Lost Songs of Anatolia

Lost Songs of Anatolia Turkish Anadolunun Kayp arklar is a 2010 Turkish musical documentary film directed by Nezih nen.

Turkish composer, producer and arranger Nezih nen was inspired to make the film by Peter Gabriels Passion album, which includes Anatolian folk songs. Talking about the film to Hrriyet Daily News and Economic Review the director stated, A hundred years ago, cinema and the music industry started to grow up and circulate freely. While the world was developing quickly in culture and arts, Anatolia was left to solitude despite all its riches, and We should dote on Anatolia, protect all its riches and hand down this heritage to the next generations. This is our primary responsibility. The director also clarrified that the film was meant to be a movie not a documentary as, Anatolia would reveal the truth about itself on its own. If it was a documentary, it would be too didactic. So I wanted it to be a movie composing its own poetry.West lovers started to assume themselves as the lords of Istanbul. They look down upon the East and treat Anatolia as the other. The gentlemen of Istanbul who try to become Western without internalizing their own culture got stuck between East and West, the director said of the development of Turkish cultural attitudes since the foundation of the Turkish Republic. In fact, when I realize that I do not know Anatolian people, I understood that I did not know myself either. After I became aware of this, I decided to do something about it and started from the point I knew best, he added. Turkey should not be a country fearing the diversity of its people and their languages, the director stated confirming that that, Armenian songs would be performed for the first time in a movie. This is a beginning in Turkish cinema history. I hope this will continue. ........

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