'The Losers' Club' brings shock jocks of 1990s' Istanbul back to life

In his second feature, director and writer Tolga Örnek brings to screen one of the most controversial radio shows of the 1990s and its two bad-boy hosts. ‘Kaybedenler Kulübü’ stars Nejat İşler and Yiğit Özşener as the real-life radio personalities who shot to short-lived fame with their conversations on sex, rock’n’roll, loneliness, and nothing at all

Turkish cinema last month was not much unlike history on parade. The film 72. Koğuş (72nd Cell) took us back to the social dynamics of 1940s Turkey, Gölgeler ve Suretler (Shadows and Faces) provided a heartbreaking look into the origins of the Cyprus conflict in the early 1960s while Press was an impressive debut about the recurring murders of journalists in the 1990s.

The recent Kaybedenler Kulübü (The Losers’ Club) takes us to the same time period as Press, but to a place and to a group of people that stand at the opposite end. Press took place in southeastern Turkey, right at the heart of the conflict between the Turkish military and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and followed a group of journalists whose lives were in danger for revealing human rights violations and pursuing the truth.

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