Pocket Hercules: Naim Süleymanoglu (Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu)

Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu's life is the subject of Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu (Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu), a Turkish biographical drama. Özer Feyzioğlu directed it, and it opened on November 22, 2019, running 141 minutes. It took more than 31.7 million lira and about 1.88 million admissions at the box office. Mustafa Uslu produced it.

Writer Barış Pirhasan based the script on Kardeşim Cep Herkülü, a book of memories by the athlete's brother Muharrem Süleymanoğlu. The film covers the eleven years from Naim's introduction to weightlifting at ten in the 1970s to the 1988 Seoul Olympics: his becoming the youngest world record holder at fifteen and the Olympic, European and world titles that followed. A large part of the story concerns the Bulgarisation campaign launched in late 1984 by the Communist Party government under Todor Zhivkov, in which Bulgaria's Turks were forced to take Bulgarian names. Naim's attempts to leave the country to tell the world about it are central to the plot.

Hayat Van Eck plays Naim. Yetkin Dikinciler and Selen Öztürk play Süleyman and Hatice Süleymanoğlu, with İsmail Hacıoğlu as Mehmet Tunç and Barış Kıralioğlu as Turgut Özal. Fahir Atakoğlu composed the music and Martin Szecsanov was cinematographer; filming took place in Turkey, Bulgaria, Australia, Brazil, England, the USA and Moscow.