a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title tur

a Classification number DVD 006441

a Personal name Dündar, Can,

d Dates associated with a name 1961-

a Title Mustafa

h Medium DVD

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Turkey :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Komedya,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.

a Extent 1 DVD

a Playing time 110 min.

a Summary, etc When Goran Bregovic(in Antalya premiere of the movie)told the NTV reporter :" Can did something great. People will get to know this great man better with his weaknesses, with his human side" it did indeed intrigue me so I decided to see the movie in the theater though I don't like going to documentaries. The movie surely arose a furore whether this could be really the "Ataturk" they know or they want to know.If Can Dündar(the director and the writer of the movie) did not have a spotless secular career he may have had to deal with more blunt,braying criticism, even now he had to breast a storm of criticism. Though some like the 'Mustafa' presented by Dündar with his weaknesses,with his love affairs,with his fear of darkness, others thought the movie made him look like a dictator. Even the leading mobile operator Turkcell refrained from being one of the corporate sponsors on the grounds that it did not want to annoy its sensitive subscribers. As for me, I did not like the movie not because it was part of a Western-backed plot to weaken Turkey's Kemalist army and rise "enlightened Islam" in favor of "Kemalist secularism" but because it did not arouse a feeling in me that would make me humanize Ataturk.What I would like to know more about Ataturk's daily life should not be just consisted of the fact that--he smoked three packages of cigarettes every day,he drank raki every day,ha was constantly concerned about being forgotten after his death, he could not deal with the criticism and sent even his companions in arms to the gallows,he was uninformed and ignorant of the situation of his own citizens because of his having been surrounded by sycophants, he had his own sculpture erected etc.." I am not saying that he did not do these things.

a Language note Language(s): Turkish

a Language note Subtitle(s): No Subtitles

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Documentary

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element History

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Drama

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Turkish Movie

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Türk Sineması

a Personal name Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

a Personal name Selin Soylu

a Personal name Arif Soysalan

a Personal name Mustafa Sütçü

a Personal name Cemalettin Canli

a Personal name Ulas Canli

a Personal name Yetkin Dikinciler

a Personal name Can Dündar

a Personal name Nazan Gezer

a Personal name Saadet Özen

a Personal name Beyhan Saran

a Personal name Nejat Semerci

a Personal name Saadet Türker

a Personal name Bahadir Yazici

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