Press Reviews about Nedim Hazar - A Selection
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Laudatio for "Turkey on the Move"
A "Provocative" Voyage
Ekin Karaca, Yeni Aktüel, 12.07.08
Nedim Hazar is a living example for being open to life's surprises. He was born in Turkey, grew up in Australia and later in Turkey. Shortly after he took part in a political youth camp in Germany when he was 20 years old, the army usurped power in 1980 and Hazar could not return to his country for the next seven years. This is the story of Nedim Hazar, which leads us from "provoking" workers with an accordion, to world music charts, to a person who in his own terms produces "documentaries and not illustrated news articles" today.
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A Traveller Playing our Background Music
Eyüp Tatlıpınar, Akşam - Brunch Eki, Mart 2007
The subject of Nedim Hazar's documentary series, which will be broadcast in the coming days, is the history of our popular music of the last 40 years. However his own adventurous life could be a very exciting film itself, a documentary spreading over 40 years between Ankara, Sydney, Cologne, Istanbul and between theater and rock music...
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The Filmmaker Who Provokes Strikes With His Accordion
Celal Başlangıç, Radikal, 04.12.06
Nedim Hazar was "registered" by the police 30 years ago. His files state that he has 'provoked workers to strike by playing an accordion'. Today, he is a documentary filmmaker, who tells about the songs of the 60's and 70's which we still sing and listen to, in his new documentary series, "The Background Music of Our Lives".
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He is One of Us
Şirin Sever, Sabah / Günaydın, Mayıs 2006
Nedim Hazar, who recently directed films like Kushtepe Blues, Mercan Dede and Burhan Öçal is now presenting his latest work, "Özcan Deniz Without Makeup"... This documentary, due for broadcast on 4th May in CNN-Türk reveals the change in the music and career of the türkisch pop star Özcan Deniz. Nedim Hazar: "I wanted to show that such a star, such a phenomenon is touchable, is reachable like anybody else.
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They Love Kushtepe Blues
Akşam, 08.10.2004
The documentary "Kushtepe Blues" is a film about traditional and modern music education in Turkey, as seen from the perspective of children in Kushtepe, a run-down quarter in Istanbul.
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Asylum on the Bosphorus
Mutlu Tönbekici, Sabah, 27.05.2001
Not only Jews fled Germany, when Hitler took over power in 1933. Many Christians, who opposed the regime migrated too. Some of them came to Turkey. Nedim Hazar, a documentary filmmaker living in Germany, is presently shooting a film this migration, focussing on two Germans, who experienced it: the 73-year-old Cornelius Bischoff and the 75-year-old Adelheid Scholz. With a budget of 400 thousand DM, this film is due to be broadcast in 3 Sat on the 28th of October.
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