I Wrote the Truth – The Notebook of Lice

I Wrote the Truth – The Notebook of Lice

I Wrote the Truth – The Notebook of Lice (Min Rasti Nivisand – Deftere Liceye) 2012

Turkey, DVD, Color, 42’

Director: Ersin Çelik

Language: Turkish, Kurdish

Screening: Thursday, April 4 15:00, Sunday, April 14 15:00

The documentary “I Wrote the Truth – The Notebook of Lice” focuses on the village named Tektaş and the diary which has been kept by a peasant named Ahmet Tektaş (83) since 1945. Tektaş has turned his notebook into a historical document by recording all sorts of interesting events of everyday life together with historically important ones such as the killing of 4 peasants, the devastating earthquake in Lice in 1975 and its aftermath, the burning and evacuation of their village and the burning of Lice town center in 1993.

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