Plot synopsis

"<...>Ankara, Heart of Turkey was not a documentary in its pure state, but a mixture, completely new at the time, of documentary proper, live news and acted scenes. The images of Kemal Ataturk and his Prime Minister, Ismet Inonu, the scenes captured on the spot in the streets of the young Turkish capital and the landscapes and monuments were part of an imaginary story, the story of an old peasant who comes to the city for the first time in his life. The subject was clever, it allowed the director to externalize his impressions in all their freshness without seeming naive. For a foreigner, the life of a people is full of pitfalls, at every turn, he risks getting into inappropriate ecstasies, being offended for no reason or shocking without wanting to..."
Source: Youtkevitch, L. et J. Schnitzer, The Age of Man, 1976

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Sergueï Youtkevitch sur le tournage du film. Journal Séance, N°21/22