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We Called Him the Ugly King
Film / 1987

We Called Him the Ugly King

Directed by Claude Weisz
Documentary

★ 9.0/10Audience rating

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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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.

Cast

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

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