Yol (1982) - full transcript
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Your tooth is cracked. The pain
will go if the burn it.
- How are you going to burn it?
- Our Barber Elim.
He knows what to do.
First you have to heat up a piece
of wire until it gets red.
Then we'll stick it into the crack
and burn your tooth.
- Can you stand the pain?
- I don't know. Is it possible?
- Are you ready?
-Yes I am.
Don't you shut your mouth or shake
your head to le ft or right.
Hold him tight. Don't let him move.
Hold him tight.
We'll marry as soon as I get released.
As the head of the family...
...my word counts. You'll have to
accept everything I say.
If I say it's black, you'll
know it is black.
You won't talk to men or joke
with them. I'll get mad.
You won't talk with other men
except for you brothers and closed
relatives. You'll do what I say.
You won't go against my word.
No talk of like let me put on these
and that. I'll get angry, very angry.
I will determine what you will
do and put on. Got it?
Alright. How nice you've put it.
Did you learn all these, in jail?
Who knows when we'll meet again.
Write me letters. Long. Long letters.
Send them to your new house's
address. Don't send them to us...
...or my dad gets mad.
- He's an old fashioned man.
What age do we live in?
I just don't get it.
Who's Meral, ha? Who?
She's my fianc?. I mean,
she's going to be my wife.
Is there anything
worse than this?
This is our custom.
Don't you know how people gossip?
Who cares about them? Do I
interfere in their business?
- Don't drink, you'll get drunk.
- What's it to you?
Call those two detectives too.
Let them also interfere in my raki.
Two detectives, to watchman,
moving right behind us.
Why?
Just in case something happens?
What could have happened,
I'm asking you?
Damn you, your two detectives too.
Come in.
Come in.
Don't look. Come.
Isn't that ours?
Come baby.
- What's today?
- Friday.
Come in!
- Go to number 4.
- Number 4! I won't go to number 4.
- What's your number?
- Are you crazy or what?
He's obsessed with
numbers. Piss off.
Anything but number 4.
- I'm waiting at number 11 .
- 11 is okay. Don't be late.
Don't come late, come early.
Don't come late, come early.
I'm just wondering, why did you
not go to number 4?
4 is the number of my dorm at jail.
You know what? I don't like neither
the dorm, nor the detectives. Got it?
No I didn't.
I didn't enjoy this leave at all.
How could you flee?
- What happened dad?
- Emine has run away.
Cinde.
- Father, Seyit is here.
- Let me kiss your hand.
How did you get here
in this snow and weather?
- It was pretty hard.
- How are your parents?
Fine. They've sent their regards.
- Did you talk to Sevket?
- I did.
What do you think?
The same.
Tell me... when?
I'd like to take away my wife and
son tonight if you please.
- Where?
-To Sancak. To Sevket's place.
You have something on your mind?
I have.
Did she see you?
She did.
8 month...
She's tied up there like a dog.
Her leg is chained up.
She didn't see day light for
8 month. It's forbidden.
She's forbidden anything but
bread and water.
No water touched her skin since
8 month. That's what she deserves.
Are you happy to see me?
She wants to arouse pity for herself.
Seyit Ali, don't you grow soft on her.
Don't let your hands shake.
She's blackened the name of
our family. Don't you pity her.
I'm going to take you to your
uncle. We'll take your mom too.
- We shouldn't take her?
- Why?
She's Filthy.
Your uncle said ''Take Zine and
my nephew. '' he said.
- Are you going to talk to Zine?
- I will.
Well. Talk. But be aware. She's devil.
Don't be taken in by her. Be brave.
Use your hatred and anger.
I'm ashamed of you Seyit.
I told you I would wait
but couldn't. What shall I say?
What's done is done.
What shall I say?
I became thinner and thinner.
What could I do?
What good would
it do if I'd say I'm sorry?
What should I weep for,
why should I complain?
What's gone is gone.
I've deserved it all.
I'm in this barn for 8 month.
Don't resemble a human anymore.
I just have bread and water.
But you behaved to me like a human.
You know what I think. I have no
more bread to eat, water to drink...
...in this world. They were waiting
for you, and here you are.
Don't kill me like this.
Let me take a bath, put clean
clothes on, comb my hair...
...purify my self and
do my prayer.
What else?
- I'd like to embrace my son.
- What son?
You know.
I came here to take you to Sancak
to your big brother Sevket.
I'm not going to shoot you.
May God punish you.
Whatever you say.
I know how I'll end up.
I ask from you not to hand
me over to somebody else.
Give me what I deserve.
We've shared the same bed.
My Seyit. We have a right
on each other. A marital right.
Please don't deny me my last wish.
I'm not the Seyit Ali
you used to know.
I'm not the old Seyit Ali.
I used to proud and honorable.
But now...
I don't have the nerve to
go out in public anymore.
I'm burning inside.
I asked you. You said you
could wait.
Is this how you were supposed to
wait? But I swore not to harm you.
God will punish you.
Open the door!
What the hell?!
Goodness gracious. Things have
gone dogs. You rotten shits.
Excuse me. Get out of the way!
Mommy, Daddy!
God damn you.
You infidels.
Beat them up!
Mommy! Daddy!
Beat them!
Some things are hard to tell.
They're hard to tell and
to understand.
So what? Are you going to
understand it and we're not?
That's not what I meant?
What do you mean then? You've
been busted in the look.
Isn't this shameful?
It's a shame for you.
For me it's necessity.
Cut it short. What necessity?
Do you have any marriage papers?
We're not officially married.
But we have kids.
How shall I know if the kids
are someone else'.
Let's hand them over to the
security forces at the first station...
...with our report. There are rules
and regulations in this country.
Let them be punished.
- Are the kids really yours?
-They are.
You should be ashamed of
your children.
Take the kids inside.
Come.
How are you going to
go out in public now?
God damn you all.
You wretch!
You should thank your children.
Otherwise I wouldn't let you go.
Don't you go out. They will tear you
to pieces. Stay where you are.
You better talk to the
people at the door.
Okay people. Return to
your places.
It's just a hastily couple.
Immorals!
You evil!
You should have dressed down.
Alright. Evil, immoral,
this and that. Break it up!
It's their own trouble.
Break it up!
Seyit said ''I will take you
to Sevket. ''
That's what he said to us too.
''Let Zine have a bath...
...give her clean cloth and a
comb for her hair.
We'll set off when the moon rises.
So he had pity on me.
He thought it over and...
...pitied on me.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid.
I accustomed my self to death.
But Seyit said such things,
I don't know how to put it.
A hope grew inside me. I wasn't
Afraid of death in the past.
I wanted it. But now...
now I'm scared.
Sefer. Don't shoot.
Seyit, wake up!
The moon has risen.
Be brave my son. If you get soft
on her and your hands shake...
...I will hound you
even in the next world.
Don't forget, these two hands won't
leave you in peace.
Remove this stain from our faces.
Clean our honor.
Farewell sister. Maybe we won't
see each other again.
- You have so much right on me.
- Nobody has. May God forgive you.
I kept this for bad day s.
I don't need this anymore.
-Take it.
- I won't.
Why?
That gold has the thing
of your flesh and bone?
What thing?
You sold your flesh
for that gold.
- Forgive your rights on me.
- What's there to forgive?
May you have
a good journey.
Zine is weak and ill. She can't
endure this journey in winter.
Does she have the strength
for the way?
She's ill, her clothes are thin.
She'll freeze and cause them trouble.
Let her freeze and die.
You can't cross the
Cobantasi Pass like this.
- If you go like this, you'll freeze.
- I'll freeze?
You'll freeze. The pass is pretty
windy. It will freeze a man instantly.
Saliho's bride froze two day s
ago. And two of her kids.
You have a long way ahead.
At least Five hours.
Oh my God.
Give me strength.
Don't leave me here.
Give me strength.
That's the Syrian border. The border
is stuffed up with barb wires, mines.
Those mines have blew apart my
fathers and hundreds of villagers...
...limbs and heads. The borders which
are the grave of hundreds of villagers.
The Syrian territory is just
But you can't go. Because you can't
explain your situation.
Nobody wants to understand you.
They say go, finish your sentence.
Abuzer is a fugitive, you're a fugitive.
They say, what are we going to do.
I wish I knew. I can't accept it
anymore. I'm fed up being depressed.
They want to wed you. They say
you'd be docile when you get married.
But they got no money.
I won't marry. I don't want to
leave a widow behind me.
Halil, I saw a girl when I came here.
I know her but I'm not sure. Her nose...
That's M?sl?m's daughter.
Her name is G?lbahar.
She's a strong girl. She was a kid
when you were put in jail.
- What's that father?
- A horse carcass.
I'm worn out.
Oh God, give me strength.
Seyit!
Seyit!
Don't leave me here.
Seyit!
Daddy!
What?
- My mom lags behind.
- She'll catch up.
But she can't. She's shouting.
Seyit! Save me!
You wished she wouldn't
have come with us.
You brought her.
Then you shouldn't have.
I don't feel my legs!
I can't walk.
My legs don't move!
Saliho's bride froze
in two hours distance.
They sweat. They got
excited and sweat.
Then they were exposed to the cold,
got stuck in the snow and fell asleep.
My legs... My legs...
They don't carry
me anymore.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Forgive me. I can't
look you in the face.
Forgive me. Forgive me.
Don't let the beasts feed on me here.
I'm willing to be your slave.
My hands... My hands...
I don't feel my hands.
My hands!
My hands!
I'm dying Seyit.
I'm dying.
Forgive me. Forgive me.
I'm ashamed of you. Forgive
your rights on me.
You were a very good man. You
used to play the pipe so nice.
I wept when you played.
Zine! Zine! Wake up!
Wake up! Don't fall asleep Zine.
If you sleep, you'll freeze.
Don't sleep. Zine!
Wake up. Zine wake up.
Don't fall asleep.
Zine wake up. Don't sleep. Zine.
Get up Zine. Get up.
Zine, don't sleep.
Don't sleep.
Zine don't sleep!
Get up!
Mirza. Hit your mom so
she won't sleep. Hit her!
Hit her!
What's up?
Are you Sevket?
- Your sister?
- My sister.
She froze to death.
My condolences.
- My father?
- Heaven forbid! I hope it's not him.
My father?
My father?
God knows. We can't know.
I hope it's not him.
Friends, this country is our country.
We have no differences.
Yesterday night there was a
clash at the border.
You must have heard the shots.
Yet we were not able to find
any papers for identification.
Look at the dead, whether you
know them or not.
We're going to give the corpses
to their relatives.
Look and tell us if you know them.
The corpses are in the truck.
Look at them.
We're sorry too.
But law is law. That's what happens
to those who break the laws.
Cooperate. Look at the corpses and
tell us whether you know them.
You'll be punished if you
know them and don't tell us.
Do you know them?
No. I don't know any one.
- Is there anyone you know?
- No.
- Is there anyone you know?
- No.
Get out.
My condolences. You know,
I'm your husband know.
That's the code.
Seyit!
Don't let the beasts feed on me.
Save me!
Seyit!
After all those years
there's Diyarbakir.
My poor children, my wife.
Those who love me
despite everything.
The ones who'll feel
happy to see me.
My father-in-law, mother-in-law
and brothers-in-law.
My father-in-law, mother-in-law
and brothers-in-law.
Those who hate me.
That's weird. This is Diyarbakir.
Attention: The convicts who don't
return to the penitentiary...
...after the end of their leave will
be accepted as fugitives.
In case of disease, accident or
any incident, the convicts on leave...
...are to contact the district
attorney ship or the martial law...
...head offices and surrender.
Any medical reports taken...
...during the leave are invalid.
Those who come late...
...will be punished, despite
medical reports and send to...
...the covered penitentiary.
The Penitentiary Directorship.
Attention! The prisoners on
leave are returning...
We'd like to thank our companions
who worked with great...
...courage and self-sacrifice under
difficult social and natural...
...circumstances to make
this movie happen.
They will live on, as long as
this movie exists.
will go if the burn it.
- How are you going to burn it?
- Our Barber Elim.
He knows what to do.
First you have to heat up a piece
of wire until it gets red.
Then we'll stick it into the crack
and burn your tooth.
- Can you stand the pain?
- I don't know. Is it possible?
- Are you ready?
-Yes I am.
Don't you shut your mouth or shake
your head to le ft or right.
Hold him tight. Don't let him move.
Hold him tight.
We'll marry as soon as I get released.
As the head of the family...
...my word counts. You'll have to
accept everything I say.
If I say it's black, you'll
know it is black.
You won't talk to men or joke
with them. I'll get mad.
You won't talk with other men
except for you brothers and closed
relatives. You'll do what I say.
You won't go against my word.
No talk of like let me put on these
and that. I'll get angry, very angry.
I will determine what you will
do and put on. Got it?
Alright. How nice you've put it.
Did you learn all these, in jail?
Who knows when we'll meet again.
Write me letters. Long. Long letters.
Send them to your new house's
address. Don't send them to us...
...or my dad gets mad.
- He's an old fashioned man.
What age do we live in?
I just don't get it.
Who's Meral, ha? Who?
She's my fianc?. I mean,
she's going to be my wife.
Is there anything
worse than this?
This is our custom.
Don't you know how people gossip?
Who cares about them? Do I
interfere in their business?
- Don't drink, you'll get drunk.
- What's it to you?
Call those two detectives too.
Let them also interfere in my raki.
Two detectives, to watchman,
moving right behind us.
Why?
Just in case something happens?
What could have happened,
I'm asking you?
Damn you, your two detectives too.
Come in.
Come in.
Don't look. Come.
Isn't that ours?
Come baby.
- What's today?
- Friday.
Come in!
- Go to number 4.
- Number 4! I won't go to number 4.
- What's your number?
- Are you crazy or what?
He's obsessed with
numbers. Piss off.
Anything but number 4.
- I'm waiting at number 11 .
- 11 is okay. Don't be late.
Don't come late, come early.
Don't come late, come early.
I'm just wondering, why did you
not go to number 4?
4 is the number of my dorm at jail.
You know what? I don't like neither
the dorm, nor the detectives. Got it?
No I didn't.
I didn't enjoy this leave at all.
How could you flee?
- What happened dad?
- Emine has run away.
Cinde.
- Father, Seyit is here.
- Let me kiss your hand.
How did you get here
in this snow and weather?
- It was pretty hard.
- How are your parents?
Fine. They've sent their regards.
- Did you talk to Sevket?
- I did.
What do you think?
The same.
Tell me... when?
I'd like to take away my wife and
son tonight if you please.
- Where?
-To Sancak. To Sevket's place.
You have something on your mind?
I have.
Did she see you?
She did.
8 month...
She's tied up there like a dog.
Her leg is chained up.
She didn't see day light for
8 month. It's forbidden.
She's forbidden anything but
bread and water.
No water touched her skin since
8 month. That's what she deserves.
Are you happy to see me?
She wants to arouse pity for herself.
Seyit Ali, don't you grow soft on her.
Don't let your hands shake.
She's blackened the name of
our family. Don't you pity her.
I'm going to take you to your
uncle. We'll take your mom too.
- We shouldn't take her?
- Why?
She's Filthy.
Your uncle said ''Take Zine and
my nephew. '' he said.
- Are you going to talk to Zine?
- I will.
Well. Talk. But be aware. She's devil.
Don't be taken in by her. Be brave.
Use your hatred and anger.
I'm ashamed of you Seyit.
I told you I would wait
but couldn't. What shall I say?
What's done is done.
What shall I say?
I became thinner and thinner.
What could I do?
What good would
it do if I'd say I'm sorry?
What should I weep for,
why should I complain?
What's gone is gone.
I've deserved it all.
I'm in this barn for 8 month.
Don't resemble a human anymore.
I just have bread and water.
But you behaved to me like a human.
You know what I think. I have no
more bread to eat, water to drink...
...in this world. They were waiting
for you, and here you are.
Don't kill me like this.
Let me take a bath, put clean
clothes on, comb my hair...
...purify my self and
do my prayer.
What else?
- I'd like to embrace my son.
- What son?
You know.
I came here to take you to Sancak
to your big brother Sevket.
I'm not going to shoot you.
May God punish you.
Whatever you say.
I know how I'll end up.
I ask from you not to hand
me over to somebody else.
Give me what I deserve.
We've shared the same bed.
My Seyit. We have a right
on each other. A marital right.
Please don't deny me my last wish.
I'm not the Seyit Ali
you used to know.
I'm not the old Seyit Ali.
I used to proud and honorable.
But now...
I don't have the nerve to
go out in public anymore.
I'm burning inside.
I asked you. You said you
could wait.
Is this how you were supposed to
wait? But I swore not to harm you.
God will punish you.
Open the door!
What the hell?!
Goodness gracious. Things have
gone dogs. You rotten shits.
Excuse me. Get out of the way!
Mommy, Daddy!
God damn you.
You infidels.
Beat them up!
Mommy! Daddy!
Beat them!
Some things are hard to tell.
They're hard to tell and
to understand.
So what? Are you going to
understand it and we're not?
That's not what I meant?
What do you mean then? You've
been busted in the look.
Isn't this shameful?
It's a shame for you.
For me it's necessity.
Cut it short. What necessity?
Do you have any marriage papers?
We're not officially married.
But we have kids.
How shall I know if the kids
are someone else'.
Let's hand them over to the
security forces at the first station...
...with our report. There are rules
and regulations in this country.
Let them be punished.
- Are the kids really yours?
-They are.
You should be ashamed of
your children.
Take the kids inside.
Come.
How are you going to
go out in public now?
God damn you all.
You wretch!
You should thank your children.
Otherwise I wouldn't let you go.
Don't you go out. They will tear you
to pieces. Stay where you are.
You better talk to the
people at the door.
Okay people. Return to
your places.
It's just a hastily couple.
Immorals!
You evil!
You should have dressed down.
Alright. Evil, immoral,
this and that. Break it up!
It's their own trouble.
Break it up!
Seyit said ''I will take you
to Sevket. ''
That's what he said to us too.
''Let Zine have a bath...
...give her clean cloth and a
comb for her hair.
We'll set off when the moon rises.
So he had pity on me.
He thought it over and...
...pitied on me.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid.
I accustomed my self to death.
But Seyit said such things,
I don't know how to put it.
A hope grew inside me. I wasn't
Afraid of death in the past.
I wanted it. But now...
now I'm scared.
Sefer. Don't shoot.
Seyit, wake up!
The moon has risen.
Be brave my son. If you get soft
on her and your hands shake...
...I will hound you
even in the next world.
Don't forget, these two hands won't
leave you in peace.
Remove this stain from our faces.
Clean our honor.
Farewell sister. Maybe we won't
see each other again.
- You have so much right on me.
- Nobody has. May God forgive you.
I kept this for bad day s.
I don't need this anymore.
-Take it.
- I won't.
Why?
That gold has the thing
of your flesh and bone?
What thing?
You sold your flesh
for that gold.
- Forgive your rights on me.
- What's there to forgive?
May you have
a good journey.
Zine is weak and ill. She can't
endure this journey in winter.
Does she have the strength
for the way?
She's ill, her clothes are thin.
She'll freeze and cause them trouble.
Let her freeze and die.
You can't cross the
Cobantasi Pass like this.
- If you go like this, you'll freeze.
- I'll freeze?
You'll freeze. The pass is pretty
windy. It will freeze a man instantly.
Saliho's bride froze two day s
ago. And two of her kids.
You have a long way ahead.
At least Five hours.
Oh my God.
Give me strength.
Don't leave me here.
Give me strength.
That's the Syrian border. The border
is stuffed up with barb wires, mines.
Those mines have blew apart my
fathers and hundreds of villagers...
...limbs and heads. The borders which
are the grave of hundreds of villagers.
The Syrian territory is just
But you can't go. Because you can't
explain your situation.
Nobody wants to understand you.
They say go, finish your sentence.
Abuzer is a fugitive, you're a fugitive.
They say, what are we going to do.
I wish I knew. I can't accept it
anymore. I'm fed up being depressed.
They want to wed you. They say
you'd be docile when you get married.
But they got no money.
I won't marry. I don't want to
leave a widow behind me.
Halil, I saw a girl when I came here.
I know her but I'm not sure. Her nose...
That's M?sl?m's daughter.
Her name is G?lbahar.
She's a strong girl. She was a kid
when you were put in jail.
- What's that father?
- A horse carcass.
I'm worn out.
Oh God, give me strength.
Seyit!
Seyit!
Don't leave me here.
Seyit!
Daddy!
What?
- My mom lags behind.
- She'll catch up.
But she can't. She's shouting.
Seyit! Save me!
You wished she wouldn't
have come with us.
You brought her.
Then you shouldn't have.
I don't feel my legs!
I can't walk.
My legs don't move!
Saliho's bride froze
in two hours distance.
They sweat. They got
excited and sweat.
Then they were exposed to the cold,
got stuck in the snow and fell asleep.
My legs... My legs...
They don't carry
me anymore.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Forgive me. I can't
look you in the face.
Forgive me. Forgive me.
Don't let the beasts feed on me here.
I'm willing to be your slave.
My hands... My hands...
I don't feel my hands.
My hands!
My hands!
I'm dying Seyit.
I'm dying.
Forgive me. Forgive me.
I'm ashamed of you. Forgive
your rights on me.
You were a very good man. You
used to play the pipe so nice.
I wept when you played.
Zine! Zine! Wake up!
Wake up! Don't fall asleep Zine.
If you sleep, you'll freeze.
Don't sleep. Zine!
Wake up. Zine wake up.
Don't fall asleep.
Zine wake up. Don't sleep. Zine.
Get up Zine. Get up.
Zine, don't sleep.
Don't sleep.
Zine don't sleep!
Get up!
Mirza. Hit your mom so
she won't sleep. Hit her!
Hit her!
What's up?
Are you Sevket?
- Your sister?
- My sister.
She froze to death.
My condolences.
- My father?
- Heaven forbid! I hope it's not him.
My father?
My father?
God knows. We can't know.
I hope it's not him.
Friends, this country is our country.
We have no differences.
Yesterday night there was a
clash at the border.
You must have heard the shots.
Yet we were not able to find
any papers for identification.
Look at the dead, whether you
know them or not.
We're going to give the corpses
to their relatives.
Look and tell us if you know them.
The corpses are in the truck.
Look at them.
We're sorry too.
But law is law. That's what happens
to those who break the laws.
Cooperate. Look at the corpses and
tell us whether you know them.
You'll be punished if you
know them and don't tell us.
Do you know them?
No. I don't know any one.
- Is there anyone you know?
- No.
- Is there anyone you know?
- No.
Get out.
My condolences. You know,
I'm your husband know.
That's the code.
Seyit!
Don't let the beasts feed on me.
Save me!
Seyit!
After all those years
there's Diyarbakir.
My poor children, my wife.
Those who love me
despite everything.
The ones who'll feel
happy to see me.
My father-in-law, mother-in-law
and brothers-in-law.
My father-in-law, mother-in-law
and brothers-in-law.
Those who hate me.
That's weird. This is Diyarbakir.
Attention: The convicts who don't
return to the penitentiary...
...after the end of their leave will
be accepted as fugitives.
In case of disease, accident or
any incident, the convicts on leave...
...are to contact the district
attorney ship or the martial law...
...head offices and surrender.
Any medical reports taken...
...during the leave are invalid.
Those who come late...
...will be punished, despite
medical reports and send to...
...the covered penitentiary.
The Penitentiary Directorship.
Attention! The prisoners on
leave are returning...
We'd like to thank our companions
who worked with great...
...courage and self-sacrifice under
difficult social and natural...
...circumstances to make
this movie happen.
They will live on, as long as
this movie exists.