Yol

1982
PG
1h 47m

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Tarik Akan and Serif Sezer in Yol (1982)

The difficulties experienced by five prisoners who took a weeks leave from prison.The difficulties experienced by five prisoners who took a weeks leave from prison.The difficulties experienced by five prisoners who took a weeks leave from prison.

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8.0/10

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Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations

Trivia
Tarik Akan, in his book of memories, tells that he is not the one who actually shoots the horse in the scene where the horse cannot continue walking and the Akan character decides to ease its death.

Quotes
Zafer: If a patient expects help from his physician, he has to be open and honest. To give false info, would be misleading him.

Alternate versions
The original version of the Ömer segments included a sequence in which the plight of Turkey's Kurdish population is discussed, with the sequence prefaced with the location title 'Kurdistan'. The sensitivity surrounding this issue in Turkey was part of the reason the film was banned there for many years. These scenes were not restored to the 2017 'Full Version' release, nor are the included on the Korean-issued DVD of the film.

Connections
Featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Movies to Change the World (2011)

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8/10

political prisoners

Turkey is officially the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, along with Israel. But "Yol" shows that regardless of Turkey's official classification, it does have political prisoners. In this case, five of them are given a leave so that they can visit their families. While on their leaves, they (and the audience) get to see the realities of life. They may have been released from prison, but there are some metaphoric prisons that we can never escape, no matter how free we consider ourselves.

It was interesting that Yilmaz Guney managed to make this movie from jail. He did a very good job here.