Movie: We Called Him the Ugly King

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Yılmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney

Self (archive footage)

Fatoş Güney
Fatoş Güney

Self

Tarık Akan
Tarık Akan

Self (archive footage)

Kerim Afşar
Kerim Afşar

Sevda Aktolga
Sevda Aktolga

Tuncay Akça
Tuncay Akça

Gülşen Alnıaçık
Gülşen Alnıaçık

Şevket Altuğ
Şevket Altuğ

Aytaç Arman
Aytaç Arman

Dündar Aydınlı
Dündar Aydınlı

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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.

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    1987-01-01

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