Yol

Yol
Poster of Yol
Directed by	Yılmaz Güney Şerif Gören
Written by	Yılmaz Güney
Story by	Yılmaz Güney
Produced by	Yılmaz Güney Edi Hubschmid Kerim L. Puldi L. Erol Gözmen M. Sabri Aslankara Thierry Maitrejean
Starring	Tarık Akan Halil Ergün Şerif Sezer Necmettin Çobanoğlu Meral Orhonsay Sevda Aktolga Hikmet Çelik Tuncay Akça
Cinematography	Erdoğan Engin
Edited by	Yılmaz Güney
Music by	Zülfü Livaneli
Production companies	Güney Film Cactus Film Maran Film Record Film
Release dates	May 1982 (Cannes) February 12, 1999 (Turkey)
Running time	124 minutes
Countries	Turkey Switzerland France
Languages	Turkish, Kurdish

Yol (pronounced [joɫ]; translated as The Way,^[1][2] The Road^[3][4] or The Path^[5]) is a 1982 Turkish film directed by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney.^[6] The screenplay was written by Güney, and directed by his assistant Gören, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, after Güney escaped from Imrali prison, he took the negatives of the film to Switzerland and later edited it in Paris.^[7]

The film is a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave. The film has caused much controversy in Turkey, and was banned until 1999. However, it won numerous honours, including the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. It also was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.