THE HEART DREAMS OF THE PAST TIMES

HAYÂL EYLER GÖNÜL GEÇMİŞ ZAMANI

Documentary; Turkish; English subtitles; Türkiye; 2022; Color.

This documentary is about the life of Safa Önal, a living history who wrote 400 scripts in his almost a century-long life, directed 36 films, and entered the Guinness Book of Records with his 395-filmed scenarios. Witnessing blackout nights during his childhood; he started writing while he was still in secondary school and worked at Babıali for many years. The documentary focuses particularly on the Yeşilçam journey of Safa Önal, who also built up friendships with master writers such as Peyami Safa, Özdemir Asaf, Kemal Tahir and crossed paths with names such as Yahya Kemal, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek. We listen to Safa Önal's story largely from his own words.

Director : Tuba Deniz
Producer : Havva Yılmaz
Screenplay : Tuba Deniz
DOP :
Editing : 
Erman Kalay
Cast :