The Return

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The story of the journey back to the past of the third and fifth generation women of a family who had to leave their homeland due to the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. Will they be able to take the land they took from their families' graves to their hometown of Kavala?
Release Date
2017-01-01
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6
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Türkçe
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