THE MOVING PICTURE BOY ARCHIVE
GENÇ PEHLIVANLA

Title: Genç Pehlivanlar
English title: Young Wrestlers
Year of Release: 2016
Director: Mete Gümürhan
Country of Production: Turkey
Principal Boys: the 26 boys of the Amasya Wrestling Training Centre (Boarding School), though the director tends to focus on just a few of his subjects
Genre: Documentary
Length: 1 hr 24 min
Language: Turkish
Availability: A German DVD, with German subtitles, was released by CMV Laservision, under the title Junge Ringer.
English subtitles: available from opensubtitles.org
Synopsis
Mete Gümürhan's camera discreetly follows the lives of 26 boys (focusing more closely on about 5 of them) who train at a wrestling academy in the Turkish province of Amasya, in this award-winning documentary film.
Below: Director and some of the cast at the 2016 53rd Antalya International Film Festival in Turkey, where they picked up the Best Editing Award and the Behlül Dal Special Jury Award. The film has won multiple awards at festivals around the world. The director Mete Gümürhan is second from right.
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