Klamek ji bo Beko


Klamek ji bo Beko is a 1992 film written and directed by Nizamettin Arıç. It is one of the first Kurdish films.

Plot

The odyssey of a Kurdish man in search of his brother, who has fled to avoid being drafted into the Turkish Armed Forces. Escaping arrest in Turkey, he flees to Syria and from there to Iraqi Kurdistan, where he finally finds refuge among displaced children. In Iraq, Beko manages to survive the Iraqi chemical attacks in 1988, and along with a blind girl, he makes it to Germany. Eventually he discovers that his brother was drafted in the Army and killed in the conflict with Kurdish guerillas.

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