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tells about the compulsory migrations between Anatolia and Rumeli from the
point of view of the emigrants.
TALES ON CLIMATE AND TIME-2
SORROW- THE HOMELAND OF SEPARATENESS
İKLİM VE ZAMAN MASALLARI-2
AYRILIĞIN YURDU HÜZÜN
Director: Enis RIZA
Executive Producer: Nalân SAKIZLI
Assistant Director: Bahriye KABADAYI
Assistant Production: Ebru ŞEREMETLİ
Camera operator: Koray KESİK
Original Music: Sinan RIZA
Editing: Gazel KUTLAR
26 minutes / Betacam SP/ 2001/ Turkey
Turkish-Greek / English subtitled
Levissi inhabitants were among the Greeks who migrated to Greece in the
beginning of 1920’s with the exchange of populations. Those who left Kayaköy
for Greece settled in Nea-Levissi (New Kayaköy) near Athens. Behind Greeks,
Kayaköy was desolated with 500 houses, churches, chapels, fountains and
streets. This documentary was produced in the memory of the abandoned town
Kayaköy and its inhabitants...It is woven with the testimonies of those who left
with suitcases full of memories, songs and belongings as well as of the Turkish
villagers who witnessed their departure.
GÜZELYURT
Screenplay: Mihriban Tanik.
Cinematography: Cemalettin Irken.
Editing: Mustafa Unal.
Sound: Engin Apak.
Producer: Mihriban Tanik
Duration: 41’
Production Year: 1999
Güzelyurt, earlier known as Gelveri, is a province of Cappadoccia whose streets
are still rife with stories of migration. The earlier population was Orthodox
Christian but spoke Turkish. They were forced to migrate to Greece in the 1924
exchange. The houses they left vacant were then inhabited by Muslims from
Thessaloniki. From time to time, the ancestors of the people of Gelveri come
to visit their parents’ homes and renew their acquaintance with their parents’
former neighbors. They sing together in the same language. Güzelyurt witnesses
such a reunion. In the light of the recently improved relations between Greece
and Turkey, the voices of the two populations that can sing together seem to
grow louder; and Güzelyurt adds another voice to the chorus.
TWO VILLAGES OF THE POPULATION EXCHANGE:
KAYAKOY & KRIFCE
MÜBADELENİN İKİ KÖYÜ: KAYAKÖY ve KRİFCE
Direction: Mithat Bereket
Production: Mithat Bereket
Date of Production: 2000
This documentary introduces us the villages that had experienced the
population exchange so deeply and their inhabitants who still preserve the
traces of separation in their memories... Kayakoy and Krifce tell stories of
people who had migrated from each village and three generations’ struggles to
find each other. This is a tale of the two villages in the historical context of the
population exchanges that had taken place. A tale of two villages where lives,
cultures and longings all fused into each other.
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