Yılmaz Güney, (born: Yılmaz Pütün) (April 1, 1937 — September 9, 1984) was a Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor of Kurdish descent. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. He described himself as an "assimilated Kurd".
Yilmaz Guney was born in 1931 in the Yenice village of the southern city of Adana, but his identity card was prepared six years later in 1937, that's why his date o...
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Yılmaz Güney, (born: Yılmaz Pütün) (April 1, 1937 — September 9, 1984) was a Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor of Kurdish descent. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. He described himself as an "assimilated Kurd".
Yilmaz Guney was born in 1931 in the Yenice village of the southern city of Adana, but his identity card was prepared six years later in 1937, that's why his date of birth is commonly known as 1937. His father was a Zaza from Varto and his mother was a Kurd from Siverek, Turkey. Güney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in film-making. As Yeşilçam, the Turkish studio system, grew in strength, a handful of directors, including Atıf Yılmaz, began to use the cinema as a means of addressing the problems of the people. Mostly, state-sanctioned melodramas, war films and play adaptations had previously played in Turkish...
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