Yol

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Yol
Poster of Yol
Directed by	Şerif Gören
Produced by	Edi Hubschmid Yılmaz Güney
Written by	Yılmaz Güney
Starring	Tarık Akan Halil Ergün Şerif Sezer Meral Orhonsay
Music by	Sebastian Argol Zülfü Livaneli
Running time	124 min.
Language	Turkish
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Yol (Turkish for "The Road" or "The Way") is a 1982 Turkish film. The screenplay was written by Yılmaz Güney, and it was directed by his assistant Şerif Gören, who strictly followed Güney's instructions, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, when Güney escaped from prison, he took the negatives of the film and edited it in Switzerland.^{[citation needed]} The film is a harsh portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave.

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Yol tells the story of several prisoners on leave in Turkey. Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan) finds that his wife (Şerif Sezer) has cheated on him, but when her family insists on an honor killing, he cannot bring himself to kill her. Mehmet Salih (Halil Ergün) was arrested after trying to pull off a heist with his brother-in-law, whom he abandoned as he was being shot by the police. His in-laws want nothing to do with him, and he is finally forced to tell his wife Emine (Meral Orhonsay) the truth. Omar (Necmettin Çobanoğlu) returns to his village to find that it has been caught up in Turkey's civil war, and is in ruins. Each prisoner must deal with how his world has changed since being behind bars.