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Duvar
TURKEY · 1983

Duvar

Yílmaz Güney
prison brutality juvenile justice system institutional abuse adolescent resilience human rights violations
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Synopsis

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.

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