Cinema
Yol
Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören · 1982
Synopsis
Five inmates of the prison on the island of İmralı are granted a week's leave to spend a religious festival with their families, according to Karlovy Vary. Seyit Ali goes home and learns that his family is holding his wife, whom it accuses of having dishonoured herself, and expects him to kill her; Mehmet Salih is disowned by his in-laws for having abandoned his brother-in-law during a robbery; Ömer returns to his village, near the Syrian border, where soldiers and smugglers clash.
Context
Güney wrote the screenplay in prison; he dismissed a first director, Erden Kıral, then entrusted the shoot to Şerif Gören, his former assistant. After escaping, he took the negatives to Switzerland and edited the film with Elisabeth Waelchli. The music is by Sebastian Argol, the pseudonym of Zülfü Livaneli. Co-produced by Turkey, Switzerland and France, spoken in Turkish and Kurdish, the film was released in Turkey only on 12 February 1999.
Who it is for
Dialogues in Turkish and Kurdish; released in France on 1 September 1982 and available on DVD with French subtitles.
Prizes and reception
Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982, shared with another film, and the International Critics' Prize.
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