Tarık Akan, deri işçileri ve bir direniş filmi: Çark

The 1987 film Çark (The Wheel) is a film about a struggle for survival and dignity built upon the plight of glass, shipyard, and leather workers. This film, which blossomed from the death of a 16-year-old child laborer in Kazlıçeşme that same year, was transformed into almost a documentary thanks to the efforts of director Muzaffer Hiçdurmaz, the actors, the locals, and the Leather Workers' Union. In this special episode of Karşı Mahalle (The Opposite Neighborhood), we speak with Munzur Pekgüleç, then a General Headquarters Manager of the Leather Workers' Union, about his involvement in the class struggle, the atmosphere after the September 12th coup, and the film *Çark*.