The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period it was first published. Considered to be in defiance of heteronormativity, the said poem includes references to the poet’s personality, his family, his relationship to the society, and his “unexpected” death, which came three years after its publication. Today, 50 years after it was written, the documentary follows these same lines in the poem utilising cinematic elements. The documentary also rediscovers the poetics; reaches out to the family, the comrades, the friendships, departing from the official historical accounts, cognizant of his experience of otherness, in pursuit of the “lost” portrait of Arkadaş Z. Özger.
Arkadaş Z. Özger
as
Ahmed Saka
as Narrator
Ahmet İnam
as
Akın Evren
as
Cavit Kürnek
as
Deniz Ziya Temeltaş
as
Ertuğrul Kürkçü
as
Eşber Yağmurdereli
as
Halit Özboyacılar
as
Hüseyin Peker
as
İsmet Tokgöz
as
Necla Zarakol
as
