Sunday, March 5, 2023

Yol (The Road), by Yilmaz Güney (1982)

Five men are given a weeks leave from prison to visit their families.

Yusuf (Tuncay Akça) wants after a long time, to find a woman, but at the first military roadblock, he is taken into custody having lost his papers. His journey is over as it will take several days to verify who he is.

Seyit (Tarik Akan) looking forward to his wife and son. But arriving home he learns that his wife was unfaithful to him and she was subsequently banished from the family. She is held in a dungeon and tradition demands that he kills her.

Mehmet (Halil Ergün) is facing the vendetta, since by his fault his wife's brother died. Her family is furious that he wants to take his wife and children to flee with them.

Ömer (Necmettin Çobanoglu) arrives in his native Kurdish village and sees the military engaged in a policy to kill everyone who does not obey.

Meviat (Hikmet Çelik) takes the place of his deceased brother in the family, but it quickly becomes clear to him that the supposed freedom hardly differs by religious and tradition-bound pressure of a prison.

Directors Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney

Writer Yilmaz Güney

Stars

Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün, Tuncay Akça, Hikmet Çelik


Movie won 3 awards in Cannes.

Subs: English, Portuguese and Spanish

Link: https://youtu.be/koBO-qrO8VE

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