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Film by ‪@stephantalneau‬ ( www.stephantalneau.com/)
with Petra Nachtmanova (pnachtmanova.weebly.com/)
Musician Petra_Nachtmanova travels for weeks on the roads from Berlin, all the way to Iran, on her back, a legendary instrument, always asking one question:
"Can you maybe teach me a song that I can bring back home?"
Subtitles: English, Turkish, German, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Azerbaijani
Sound: Florent Chaintiou from Nadanadi Studio (www.nadanadi.de/)
Editing: Levent Celebi (www.levent-celebi.com/)
Color Correction: Jérémie Pujau
Film Music : Ceyhun Kaya, Tralalka, OKO, BaBa ZuLa, Erdal Erzincan , Amine Mesnaoui
Production: CC Wesnigk (anthro-media.com/)
Director Assistants: Tea Mikic, Verjana Abazaj, Neda Milanova, Selcen Kucukustel, Rashid Aghamaliyev, Yalda Yazdani.
Translations: Yasemin Ural, Emma Fabrikant, Golnar Tabibzadeh, Selcen Küçüküstel, Rashid Aghamaliyev, Gülistan Yiğit, Denys Vasyliev
It’s the journey of her life: Petra Nachtmanova journeys to both the end of the world and the centre of her heart. Saz on her back, the Berlin musician heads off in search of the origins of a string instrument tangled in myths, which found its way to her in the streets of Kreuzberg.
She travels from Berlin to Istanbul, through Anatolia, over the snowy peaks of the Caucasus and into the dusty desert of eastern Iran. She meets Bosnian instrument makers, music teachers who climb mountains in suits and chain-smoking Turkmen who possibly invented blues rock. She has one request for each encounter: ‘Play me a song that I can take home with me’. First she meets skeptical amazement. Then enthusiasm. And finally, deep trust.
"Saz" is a film about the power of music and the scope of the world, simultaneously a road movie and a quest for meaning, a breathtaking trip in the border region between Europe and Asia, which shows that despite conflict and crisis, there is a human everyday life out there, as well as something special that holds us together.
With: Telli Turnalar , Özgür Firat, Umut Erdogan, Udruzenje Sazlija Sevdah Zivinice, Fran Kodra, Gjovalin Shani, Hasan Hocov, Murat Ertel, Tolga Sağ, Suat Kaya, Ceyhun Kaya, Tatavla Keyfi,Erdal Erzincan, Kartal Kanat, Mehmet Karakurt, Erkan Oğur & İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu, Zeynel Dede, Yilmaz Çelik, Ayşe Şewaqî, Nazender Süzer Gökçe, Aşık Mevlüt Mertoğlu, Aşıq Nargilə, Aşıq Mübariz Əliyev, Gedebey Aşıq Mektebi, Aşıq Islam Ekberov, Yousef Dibaei Official, Hemmat Agh, Nariman Baki Nezhad, Asadollah Farmani, Seyed Roknedin Shahriari, Seyed Arash Shahriari, Haj Ghorban et Alireza Soleimani, Mohammad Yousefi
Developed with the support of: Aydin Döner, Şahin Balkaya - Pandora Yapi Ve End. Ltd. Şti, „BDC Discoveries 2016“ des Balkan Documentary Center, Azerbaijan Student Network (ASN), KALAN MUSIK, supported by the : Filmförderung Hamburg, Schleswig Holstein FFHSH
and
ZDF/ ARTE
A Production of: ANTHRO MEDIA GbR Wesnigk & Barth
Thank you for all your support:
Volker Barth, Betrand Glosset, Emine Bütüner, Elise Lein, Jochen Sandig, Philipp Griess, Aurelie Païta, Ece Pazarbaşı, Philipp Dümcke, Brigitte Kramer, Jörg Jeshel, Thorsten Niemann, Cihan Şimşek, Yaman Kaya, Ahmet Yurdakul, Ali Ekber Akyol, Taner Akyol, Joël Betton, Hubert Kolland, Nevzat Çiftçi, TD Plattform, Metin Ürgen, Tom Ehrhardt, Mano Eigen, Eddy Wong, Bruno Quelennec, Antoine Villoutreix, Romain Grandjean, Celine Marin, Damien Orcel, Milo Orcel, Arthur Lochmann, Guillaume Breton, Małgorzata Stawowczyk, Eléonore Fourniau, Gülay Hacer Toruk, Cangül Kanat, Jerôme Cler, Prof. Dr. Mandy Schulze, Tamo Chaintiou, Naël Chaintiou, Laetitia Verbauwhede, Zoe Çelebi, Elio Çelebi
BALKANS:
Selmir Šljivić, Artan Malaj, Berkant Curi, Jetmir Misini, İsmail Pireliev, Katya Barulova, Krassi Jeliazkov, Bozhko
TURKEY:
Cenk Güray, Hasan Saltık, Haris Rigas, Emre Nişanci, Fatih Bildencan, Müjde Yazıcı Ergin, İsmail Altunsaray, Begüm Karahan, Doğa Okulu, Nazender Süzer Gökçe, Gürsel Gökçe, the family of Aşık Veysel, Yücel Paşmakçı, Ilgın Su, Selim Şükrü Atakan, Sevinç Yeşiltaş, Mercan Erzincan, Şener Temelli, Öner Temelli, Yener Temelli (Aşıklar Kahvesi Erzurum)
GEORGIA:
Mirze Feteli Axundov Museum of Azerbaijani Culture in Tbilisi, Aşıq Mehman Memmedov (Sadaxli House of Culture), the People of Kepenekçi Village
AZERBAIJAN:
Jahangir Mamadov, Asif Ibrahimov, Olga Aghamaliyeva, Eldar Aghamaliyev, Sehfayet Əliyev and family, the family of Akif İsmayilov, Selman Tosun and family, Əlekber İlyasov, Mikayil Əsedov, Elshan İsmayilov, Ibrahim Ahmadov, Gurban Əlekberov, Naiba Şirinova, Nargiz Baghirzade, Ali Isa Jabbarov
IRAN:
Babak Rahati, Mojtaba Yousefi, Majid Tekkeh, Hamed Bolland, Eskandar Shahryari, Mehrdad Varasteh (Naghmeh Music Institute in Hamedan), Ayyoub Saeidi, Kaveh Sadeghi, Hemmat Agh and his family, Said Akbarzadeh (Atro Reisebüro), Saleh Mirsaeedi