The Road

The Road (1982)

Yol

The story of three families' search for freedom.

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.

Date of release
1982-09-01
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (136)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Yılmaz Güney, Şerif Gören

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Siirt, Bingöl, Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Adana and 3 more
  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 1. Including: Silver nugget for the best foreign film; Palme d'Or

Yol 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.

Production

Güney wrote the screenplay, in part inspired by his own captivity, which contained elaborate detail, including detailed instructions for directing as well as camera angles, but could not personally carry this program out as he was a captive in a Turkish prison. Güney initially recruited Erden Kiral as his surrogate director but, displeased with Kiral's work, had it destroyed and fired him. This became the basis of Kiral's later film, Yolda.

Güney subsequently hired Serif Gören. There were rumours that several prisoners, including Güney, watched much of Gören's footage on a wall at the prison. Güney later broke out of prison to edit Yol in Switzerland.

Zülfü Livaneli made the music for the movie, but due to political atmosphere then in Turkey, he used a pseudonym Sebastian Argol in order to avoid possible sanctions from Turkish courts which were then operating under 1980 Turkish coup d'état rules.

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