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Yılmaz Güney.
Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)
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About Yılmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney 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 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.
Everything about Yılmaz Güney →- Occupation
- film director, actor, screenwriter, film editor
- Citizenship
- Turkey, statelessness
- Born
- April 1, 1937
- Died
- September 9, 1984