DOCUMENTARY

Die Legende vom hässlichen König

The Legend of the Ugly King

Hüseyin Tabak
Up-and-coming director Hüseyin Tabak sets out on a journey to research Yilmaz Güney’s life, meeting the important people who share their personal memories about the legendary filmmaker. He follows his way freely, like a journey through time, back to the future with the explosiveness of political filmmaking in our time behind him, where people are arrested, just as Yilmaz Güney was thirty years ago, for themes he dealt with, which are still so important today.
Technical Data
Running time: 122
Format: digital
Screen ratio: 1:1.85
Language spoken: Turkish, English, German
Production year: 2017
Credits
Director(s): Hüseyin Tabak
Writer(s): Hüseyin Tabak
Cinematography: Lukas Gnaiger
Editing: Christoph Loidl, Andrew Bird
Producers: Mehmet Aktas, Josef Aichholzer, Hüseyin Tabak
Premiere:
September 8, 2017
Toronto (tiff Docs)
Production company
Aichholzer Filmproduktion
Heumühlgasse 13-15/2/2/15
1040 Vienna
tel:+43 1 523 40 81
With
mîtosfilm (D), MarangozFilm (D)