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A Bridge at the Edge of the World

A Bridge at the Edge of the World

68' is not an old fairy tale...

2007 · 84 min · Documentary, History

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to its destiny, in Hakkari, Zap River was taking lives since there were no passage on it.

Directed by Bahriye Kabadayı · Written by Bahriye Kabadayı

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