Mom, I Have Lice on My Head

Nothing will happen to you, you'll see. 'You will go out with your hands free.' As the plane was approaching the airport, Müjdat (Gezen) was trying to calm me down. I didn't seem to hear him. I tried to think about what he would do if I were to be arrested; I mentioned the names of a few people I know. 'Call them immediately, get my lawyer involved,' I said; I also warned him to call all the newspapers. We stopped. Everyone got active, I didn't want to get up. I was moving reluctantly and slowly. I turned to Müjdat: 'If they take me, you take my suitcase,' I said. 'I don't want to go to the branch with my luggage. I have a phone book in one of your side pockets, destroy it..."

Cinema artist Tarik Akan was arrested on his return home because of a speech he made in Germany in early 1981, right after the military coup of 1980. The reason for this arrest is the false and false news published in the headlines by a right-wing newspaper. Thus, a long trial process begins. Political Branch, interrogations, pushing, humiliation, cold cells, lice-infested cells, right-wingers, leftists, revolutionaries, TKP members, executioners... This is the environment that Tarik Akan, at the peak of his fame, will be in for months. Tarik Akan, who was acquitted and freed after a long time, cannot forget the pressures and pain of those days, even though years have passed; The only way out is to write down what you experience. Mother, I Have a Lice in My Head is like a record of that dark period. The memoirs, which reveal a little-known aspect of the famous cinematographer who has turned to films with social content for the last twenty years, also include many well-known names and important events, from Serif Gören to Atif Yilmaz, from Orhan Apaydin to the Peace Association Case, while Yilmaz Güney was in prison. The entire adventure of the film Yol, which was shot secretly, is also mentioned.


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 198

Year of Printing: 2016


eBook:

Number of Pages: 115

Year of Printing: 2002


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayınları

Number of Pages: 198

First Printing Year: 2002

Language Turkish