The Legend of the Ugly King

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.

• Hüseyin TabakDirector
• Hüseyin TabakWriter

• Yılmaz GüneySelf (archive footage)
• Tarık AkanSelf
• Patrick BlossierSelf
• Costa-GavrasSelf
• Halil ErgünSelf
• Michael HanekeSelf
• Gilles JacobSelf
• Donat KeuschSelf
• Tuncel KurtizSelf (archive footage)
• Hüseyin TabakSelf
• Nebahat ÇehreSelf (Guney's First Wife)
• ZirekSelf