Yol (1982)

Directed by

Şerif Gören, Yılmaz Güney

Genre

drama film

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 131 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five prisoners are given a week of home leave from a Turkish prison. The film follows each man's journey and the struggles they face with family, authority, and a society under military rule.

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What happens

Yol (pronounced [joɫ]; translated as The Way, The Road or The Path) is a 1982 Turkish film directed by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören. The screenplay was written by Güney—who at the time was in prison—with detailed directing instructions, which were carried out by his assistant Gören. Later, after Güney escaped from Imrali prison, he took the negatives of the film to Switzerland and later edited it in Paris. The film is a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave. The film has caused much controversy in Turkey, and was banned until 1999. However, it won numerous honours, including the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. It also was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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