Word: yilmaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screenplay by Yilmaz...
...Yilmaz Güney is a national movie idol, a world-class moviemaker and a convicted murderer. There are many, in Turkey and in the international film community, who believe that these three eminences are related. Güney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films-slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous-smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. For these heresies and others, Güney has spent half of his adult life in prison. In 1974, while filming a scene in a crowded restaurant in Adana...
...world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with the latest news from Sophia Loren's pink-walled prison in Caserta near Naples. Comedy, melodrama, illusion 24 times per second. That's the name of the game...
...major Hollywood studio, and as one caustic observer put it, "The film couldn't miss in Cannes: it was both American and anti-American." As for Yol, this slow, powerful study of six Turkish prisoners on a short leave to visit their families was "directed" by its author, Yilmaz Güney, while he was being held in a Turkish jail on a murder charge that his supporters believe was politically motivated...