Film

We Called Him the Ugly King

9.01987Documentary

Director: Claude Weisz
Year: 1987

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.

Top cast

Yılmaz Güney

Self (archive footage)

Fatoş Güney

Self

Tarık Akan

Self (archive footage)

Kerim Afşar

Sevda Aktolga

Tuncay Akça

Gülşen Alnıaçık

Şevket Altuğ

Aytaç Arman

Dündar Aydınlı

Ahmet Açan

Civan Canova

Faik Coşkun

Melike Demirağ

Süleyman Demirel

Bülent Ecevit

Nizam Ergüden

Halil Ergün

Directed by

Claude Weisz