Diagonale
Diagonale
Diagonale

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Die Legende vom hässlichen König
Documentary Film, AT/DE 2017, Farbe+SW, 122 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2018

Director, Script: Hüseyin Tabak
Camera: Lukas Gnaiger
Editor: Christoph Loidl, Andrew Bird
Location Sound: Tom Schön
Music: Judit Varga
Sounddesign: Atanas Tcholakov
Producers: Josef Aichholzer, Mehmet Aktas, Hüseyin Tabak
Production: Aichholzer Filmproduktion
Co-production: mîtosfilm (DE) MarangozFilm (DE)

 

Director Yılmaz Güney produced his most wellknown film, YOL, which was honored with the Golden Palm in Cannes in 1982, from his prison cell. His works became forerunners of Kurdish cinema. On his cinematic research trips, Hüseyin Tabak gathered multifaceted material on the politically polarizing director extraordinaire: in archive images, film clips, and interview sequences, he pursues the question: who was the “ugly king”?

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