A Bridge at the Edge of the World

Oct 3, 2007

1h 24m

★ 0.0

68' is not an old fairy tale...

Overview

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.

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Documentary

History

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VTR Araştırma Yapım Yönetim

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