Yol

Yol
by Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney

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Actor: Halil Ergün, Meral Orhonsay, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Serif Sezer, Tarik Akan
Director: Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Cinematographer: Erdogan Engin
Producer: Yilmaz Güney
Writer: Yilmaz Güney
Producer: Donat Keusch
Producer: Edi Hubschmid
Producer: Eliane Stutterheim
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Kurdish (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 114 minutes
Release Date: 1991-07-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Columbia/Tri-Star
Studio: Columbia/Tri-Star

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Movie Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars

Complete rubbish from start to finish, the hand wringing liberals of course will love it. Something to discuss over a glass of wine when the conversation starts to die down and you cant find a guardian newspaper or a Robert Fisk article to discuss.

The film centres around several men on short release from prison who all journey home to visit families with various results. One man to the south east where he falls in love with a local woman but ends up having to marry his sister in law after his brother is killed smuggling. When the brothers body is brought back its shown as though these people are some kind of local heros fighting against the 'evil army' opressing them.

Now someone with little knowledge of Turkey or Islam may not notice this but in one scene we have this man courting the lady he has fallen in love with, with her 2 female relatives all in black veils following behind. The man instructs her how she will 'behave' once they are married and her response of course is to flutter her eyes and remark how well he speaks. Now aside from the shear nonsense of this scene (I'm sure it went down well with the middle class hand wringers in whatever country this pile of rubbish won an award, oh how it confirmed how backward those 'dreadful dark skinned folk are' how they must be 'civilized' and their opressed women folk 'liberated')

Then nonsene continues; The same man who it seems is courting the girl from a burqa clad family then sits and drink raki (alcohol) with his mates then goes and sleeps with a couple of prostitutes! Now anyone with even the most basic knowledge of Turkey knows only the most ulta religious in the country wear burqa (usually the Naqshbandis) and there wouldnt be a chance in hell of them even contemplating giving their daughter in marriage to some drunk who sleeps around at the local brothel.

Next we have noble hero no 2 a bank robber no less who ran off and left his mates to die. Oh how his family curse him "You have no honour" (Some might say being a bank robber in the first place he has no honour) how they deny him his wife and family. Anyway, they run off regarless, biology takes over and they go for a quickie in the foulest toilet on a train. Sadly our romeo and juliet are discovered by a mob (who acording to the translator who seems to think serifsiz means gavur as he translates this (wrongly) to mean 'infidel')

No 3 goes off to the snow capped mountains to find his missus chained up in the shed after being found doing the rounds in a local brothel by her family (who are a very religious sort, of course) They instruct him to kill her off and even pray for him to have the strength to do the job!

No doubt this pointless rubbish would win awards. It covers just about every single stereotype we in the west love so much. Problem is, you would have to be insane to even consider this even a half decent film. The acting is awful, the subtitiles are incorrect, playing a bit of Turkish folk music and having some unshaven local looking into the camera does not make a film worth watching. This is utter rubbish from start to finish.

Avoid at all costs!

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