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THE DIARY OF AN EXILE
BİR SÜRGÜNÜN NOT DEFTERİ: MİSİNA

• Director: Mert Güncüer
• TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 73’ / Turkish, Greek; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mert Güncüer
• Director of Photography: Mert Güncüer, Burak Oğuz Saguner, Deniz Göçmen
• Editing: Mert Güncüer
• Art Director: Mert Güncüer
• Cast: Katılanlar With: Fuat Saka, Cahit Berkay, Taner Öngür, Korhan Özyıldız, İsmet Arıcı, Ahmet Yeşilyaprak, Ioanna Forti, Vangelis Zografos, Thanasis Gikas, Gülsen Diyaroğlu Saka, Nedret Sekban, Nil Sekban, İsmail Sarı, Can Halman
• Producer: Mert Güncüer
• World Sales: Mert Güncüer

The Diary of an Exile unfolds around the memories and daily life of revolutionary musician Fuat Saka, who had to leave Türkiye just before the military coup d’etat in 1980 because of his political views and a fascist attack against him on the eve of 1979. Following his escape, Saka lived in exile for nearly 20 years starting from the 1980s and through the 1990s. His music was shaped during the exile and gained diversity. He borrowed the traditions of Anatolian music and mixed it with the music of various cultures. His perspective and attitude towards music would enable him as an artist to produce music in different genres and become one of the pioneers in the emergence of the genre that would later be called World Music. The film takes the viewer back and forth in time and tells the ups and downs of Saka’s life and music.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.