Alan Parker · 1978 · survival

Alan Parker's 1978 film, from Billy Hayes's true story. Caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul airport, the young American Billy Hayes is thrown into a brutal Turkish prison and, when his sentence is suddenly extended to life, transferred to a harsher institution. After years of horror he seizes a desperate chance to escape and make the long run across the border to freedom.

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   Istanbul

   The airport where the young American Billy Hayes, hashish strapped to his body, is caught trying to board a flight home - the moment that plunges him into the Turkish prison system.

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   Sagmalcilar

   The grim Istanbul prison where Hayes endures years of brutality and despair, until his sentence is abruptly extended and he is moved to a far worse place.

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   Greek border

   The frontier Hayes runs for after a violent, chance escape - a desperate flight west out of Turkey toward Greece and the freedom he had almost stopped believing in.