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''Lost Songs of Anatolia'' ((トルコ語:Anadolu'nun Kayıp Şarkıları)) is a 2010 Turkish musical documentary film directed by Nezih Ünen. The film, which has been hailed as the first musical-documentary, features around 20 musical numbers shot on location in various places around Anatolia and examines the influence of ancient civilizations, rituals and mythology of the land on traditional music and dance. ==Production== Turkish composer, producer and arranger Nezih Ünen was inspired to make the film by Peter Gabriel’s ''Passion'' album, which includes Anatolian folk songs. Talking about the film to ''Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' the director stated, ''A hundred years ago, cinema and the music industry started to grow up and circulate freely. While the world was developing quickly in culture and arts, Anatolia was left to solitude despite all its riches,'' and ''We should dote on Anatolia, protect all its riches and hand down this heritage to the next generations. This is our primary responsibility.''〔 The director also clarrified that the film was meant to be a movie not a documentary as, ''Anatolia would reveal the truth about itself on its own. If it was a documentary, it would be too didactic. So I wanted it to be a movie composing its own poetry.''〔 ''West lovers started to assume themselves as the lords of Istanbul. They look down upon the East and treat Anatolia as the ‘other.’ ‘The gentlemen of Istanbul’ who try to become Western without internalizing their own culture got stuck between East and West,''〔 the director said of the development of Turkish cultural attitudes since the foundation of the Turkish Republic. ''In fact, when I realize that I do not know Anatolian people, I understood that I did not know myself either. After I became aware of this, I decided to do something about it and started from the point I knew best,''〔 he added. ''Turkey should not be a country fearing the diversity of its people and their languages,''〔 the director stated confirming that that, ''Armenian songs would be performed for the first time in a movie. This is a beginning in Turkish cinema history. I hope this will continue.''〔 ''Financial difficulties did not deter us from our way,'' the director said of the project which saw him spend eight years wandering from village to village compiling the folk songs of Anatolia. During this researcj he took recordings for 350 hours and compiled hundreds of folk songs from which he assembled the film. ''There were many things to talk about,''〔 he stated, ''I was unwilling to cut or remove any information or scene but the time was limited.''〔 ''I insist that the movie is poetry. I do not want to waste the materials at hand. So I would prepare a documentary. Viewing the documentary, the audience would feel that they traveled Anatolia from one end to the other,''〔 the director said of his plans to prepare a documentary using the leftover parts of his research. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lost Songs of Anatolia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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