Yılmaz Güney

Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)

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Born: 1937
Died: 1984-09-09
Works: 23

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Directing · Adana, Turkey

Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or with the film 'Yol' he co-produced with Şerif Gören at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because…

Known for

The Legend of the Ugly King — Self (archive footage)2017
Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney — Self (archive footage)2016
Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause — Self (archive footage)2014
Aynalar1996
Yılmaz Güney: Adana-Paris1995
We Called Him the Ugly King — Self (archive footage)

Article

Yılmaz Güney (né Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol (The Road) which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language.

After being convicted of killing judge Sefa Mutlu in 1974 (a charge which he denied), Güney fled the country and was later stripped of his citizenship. A year before his death in 1983, he co-founded the Kurdish Institute of Paris together with the Kurdish poets Cegerxwîn and Hejar among others.