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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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Status: Released
Released Date: 1987-01-01
Runtime: 0 mins
Director: Claude Weisz
Spoken language: Türkçe
Genres: Documentary
Original title: We Called Him the Ugly King
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Production Countries: France, Turkey
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