The biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who not only grew himself up from a poor lonely child to a country's most loved person, but also rose a new country from the ashes of an empire. A story of a soldier, an eminent statesman and a great reformist.
Production
Six Atatürks for six eras — casting gimmick or genius?
Direction
Can Dündar's journalist eye for propaganda-as-art.
Director
Can Dündar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Can Dündar later fled Turkey in 2016 after being sentenced for revealing state arms smuggling to Syrian rebels — making his Atatürk worship here complicated in retrospect.
The six-actor structure was reportedly inspired by a popular Turkish chocolate commercial that used multiple actors to portray one life — peak 2000s energy.
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