Fragments of This Beauty
Overview:
A focus on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres. In 1977, two men in a hotel room over a period of two days eat, shower, watch a soccer match on TV, stare at a painting on the wall and daydream. These two men are killing time before they cause the deaths of 34 people.
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