We Called Him the Ugly King

9.0 1987
Documentary

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.

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Director
Claude Weisz

Cast

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Yılmaz Güney Self (archive footage)
Fatoş Güney Self
Tarık Akan Self (archive footage)
Kerim Afşar
Sevda Aktolga
Tuncay Akça
Gülşen Alnıaçık
Şevket Altuğ
Aytaç Arman
Dündar Aydınlı
Ahmet Açan
Civan Canova
Faik Coşkun
Melike Demirağ
Süleyman Demirel
Bülent Ecevit
Nizam Ergüden
Halil Ergün

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