Kazım
In the summer of 2016, the director of this documentary film bought a bunch of discarded letters from a flea market in Izmir, Turkey. Written in the 70s, the letters were addressed to Kâzım Küçükal, who died during a mountain expedition in 1974, at the age of 19.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Dilek Kaya
Actors: Dilek Kaya, Mustafa Kazim Kucukalp, Yasemin Kumbasar Gök
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