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Netflix’s new Turkish movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar (2021)

A Heart-Warming Melodrama following the struggles of an abandoned child living on the streets of Istanbul, starring Çagatay Ulusoy

What’s the story? (Synopsis)

WHAT’S THE STORY? (Synopsis and Cast) The Turkish movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar (2021), starring Çagatay Ulusoy, is a dark melodrama following the struggles of an abandoned child living on the streets of Istanbul, a moving storyline with a twisted ending streaming on Netflix.

Netflix’s new Turkish drama movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar (2021) starring Çagatay Ulusoy has a touching story that focuses on the struggle of poverty and the deep wounds inflicted on the abandoned children. The center of Kağıttan Hayatlar, and what sustains interest from start to end, is the adorable bond between Mehmet and Ali, the main characters of the drama movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar (2021).

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• In the Turkish drama movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar (2021), Çagatay Ulusoy shares the leading role with the child actor Emir Ali Dogrul.
• The street name on which Mehmet lives describes the core of the Turkish movie, it’s called Struggling Alley.
• Originally called in Turkish “Çikmazi Mucaders / The Deadlock of Fighting.” 
•  Directed by Can Ulkay, the Turkish drama movie Paper Lives / Kağıttan Hayatlar aired on March 12, simultaneously in 190 countries, on NETFLIX.

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Kağıttan Hayatlar / Paper Lives – WHAT’S THE STORY? (Synopsis)

The Turkish movie Kağıttan Hayatlar / Paper Lives starring Çağatay Ulusoy follows the story of Mehmet, who runs a junk collection warehouse in the slums of Istanbul, where he helps homeless children and teenagers. He acts as a mentor to the many orphans in the area. Mehmet understands the boys’ struggles because he had a similar fate. He is a kind young man battling serious health issues.

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One day Mehmet’s life becomes more fun but also more complicated when he discovers an 8-year-old boy, Ali. He was hiding in a waste trolley brought into the warehouse by one of his workers. Apparently, Ali was sent away by his mother to protect him from his abusive stepfather.

Mehmet decides to take care of the boy, and he does it with such a passion that he endangers his health and other friendships. It became an obsession for him, to do the right thing for Ali. Their bond grows up quickly, and they become inseparable. At the same time this friendship triggers painful feelings in Mehmet, related to his childhood traumas. At one point, it becomes clear that he cannot keep Ali and then he tries to take him home to his mom. That’s when the story takes a new twist.

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A DEEPER LOOK INSIDE

Netflix’s drama movie Paper Lives (Kağıttan Hayatlar) starring Çağatay Ulusoy

• A theme that reoccurs in the Turkish movie, is the need of the boys and men for a loving and protective mother figure.
• The city himself becomes a character. A study of contrast between the poor and the rich.

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Çagatay Ulusoy gives a strong and stirring performance embodying an ailing young man with childhood traumas, who is seeming the last gasp at happiness comes in the form of the sweet Ali.

• Emir Ali Dogrul is adorable and very efficient in his performance as little Ali.
• Selen Öztürk plays the role of the mother.
• Gonzales is played by Ersin Arici and Uncle Tahsin is played by Turgay Tanülkü

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