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Feature film — 1987

We Called Him the Ugly King (1987)

9.0Documentary

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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Director: Claude Weisz

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Cast & crew

Yılmaz Güney as Self (archive footage)

Yılmaz Güney

Self (archive footage)

F

Fatoş Güney

Self

Tarık Akan as Self (archive footage)

Tarık Akan

Self (archive footage)

Kerim Afşar as

Kerim Afşar

Sevda Aktolga as

Sevda Aktolga

Tuncay Akça as

Tuncay Akça

Gülşen Alnıaçık as

Gülşen Alnıaçık

Şevket Altuğ as

Şevket Altuğ

Aytaç Arman as

Aytaç Arman

Dündar Aydınlı as

Dündar Aydınlı

Ahmet Açan as

Ahmet Açan

Civan Canova as

Civan Canova

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