Speaking the Enemy’s Language: Representations of Multilingualism and Translation in Crimean
Journal: Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Dergisi
Year: 2020

This article examines the depictions of multilingualism and translation in Crimean (Kırımlı, 2014), which recounts the story of a Crimean Turk called Sadık Turan, who was taken hostage as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. Adapted from Cengiz Dağcı’s 1956 memoir-novel entitled Horrible Years (Korkunç Yıllar), the film presents a multilingual narrative through its incorporation of Turkish, German, Russian and Polish. The study aims to identify the role of multilingual interaction and