From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

October. 22,2019

Rating：

6.4

Genre：

History Documentary TV Movie

Keywords：

Turkey Anti-communism Political Repression

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Stefan Godin as Self - Narrator (voice)

Can Dündar as Self - Journalist

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Sultan Mehmed V Reşad as Self (archive footage)

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany as Self (archive footage)

Latife Uşşakî as Self - Atatürk's Wife (archive footage)

Keriman Halis Ece as Self - Miss Universe 1932 (archive footage)

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Reviews

TrueJoshNight

2019/10/22

Truly Dreadful Film

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SpunkySelfTwitter

2019/10/23

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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Abbigail Bush

2019/10/24

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Fleur

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Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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