'Rojbash': Movie tells the 25-year story of a banned Kurdish play

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The story of the play "Rojbaş," (Kurdish for "good morning'') which was staged 25 years ago in Tarlabaşı, a cosmopolitan neighborhood near İstanbul's Taksim, became a movie.

Director Özkan Küçük brought the story of the Kurdish actors who gathered again 25 years later to the silver screen. The movie will be screened in national and international film festivals.

The movie is also an effort to make the play, which started in a basement and had to return to a basement again because of the bans, more visible.

Along with the adventures of the actors who want to stage their play again, the movie's plot also covers the events after 2016, when Kurdish actors in Diyarbakır lost their jobs after the city's mayor was replaced with a government-appointed trustee.

Cast: Kemal Ulusoy, Erdal Ceviz, Yıldız Gültekin, Nihat Öz, Nazmi Kırık, Cabbar Barış, Rezan Kaya, Yavuz Akkuzu, Azad Tunç, Serap Sönmez, Rugeş Kırıcı, Hilmi Demirer, Ömer Şahin, Murat Batgi, Mizgin Kapazan, Alişan Önlü, Zelal Gunduz, Welat Akdag.

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— Özkan Küçük (@ozkan_cinamed) January 27, 2020

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