Producer and Director Cem Kar’s documentary “Unknown Prisoners” will be screened at Lefke European University (LAU) as part of Lefke’s Liberation Day events. The documentary film, which tells the story of how 75 mujahideen gathered from Lefke and surrounding villages escaped after Lefke surrendered on July 22, 1974, will be screened at 8:00 p.m. in the Conference Hall of Lefke European University’s Smart Building.
A DOCUMENTARY THAT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE PAST: The documentary film “Unknown Prisoners,” the result of research carried out by producer and director Cem Kar since 2009, brings Lefke’s little-known history to light. For the documentary, all the captured mujahideen and journalists were located, interviews were conducted with those still living, and historical documents were found; interviews lasting more than 1,500 minutes were conducted with 57 people, and nearly 300 minutes of footage was shot for the reenactments with a cast of 40. The stories told in the documentary, along with other stories that could not be included in the film, appear in the book “Unknown Prisoners,” which is currently on sale at all leading bookstores. According to a statement from LAU, all the people of Lefke are invited to watch, years later, the struggle to make Lefke and its people known, at the place where the unknown began.