HE WALKED BAREFOOT FROM GREECE TO INDIA...

”I think this is the most incredible true-life story ever told.” – Pia Fragaki

Barefoot – The Real Walkin' Class Hero is a mind-blowing and brutally honest true-life story of Mazhar Albekoglu.
Q: Why the title ”Barefoot – The Real Walkin' Class Hero”?
A: Turkish Mazhar Albekoglu walked with a Swedish passport from Athens, Greece to India in 1978.
Barefoot.
He was born in Ankara in 1950 as the beloved son of a Chechen father and a Greco-Romanian mother. He runs away from home at fourteen and ends up hitchhiking and walking as a penniless alcoholic and druggie hippie around Turkey, Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
He lives as a monk in a Hare Krishna temple. He dwells in the bat-infested caves of the Acropolis and among the lepers in India.
He almost dies at the hands of a Greek with a dagger and a sabre touting...