Yılmaz Güney
Birthday: 1937-04-01
Place of Birth: Adana, Turkey
Biography: 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 of his portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies.
Movies
The Legend of the Ugly King
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer...
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We Called Him the Ugly King
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney...
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Kahreden Kurşun
Yılmaz and a friend go to a bar called Maça Kızı. Yılmaz meets a girl there. The girl's mysterious d...
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Gönül Kuşu
A wealthy businessman places an advertisement in the newspaper to marry off his college student daug...
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Mor Defter
The film tells the story of how Suphi brings together the people around him in the imaginary world h...
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The Hungry Wolves
Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the d...
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Çirkin ve Cesur
The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towar...
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Bullets Won't Touch Me
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years....
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Kurbanlık Katil
Mustafa, known by the nickname "Ipsiz," is a drunkard and a wine lover. He spends the 3-5 kuruş he e...
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Elegy
Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are har...
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Law of the Border
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling...
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The Poor
The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on vario...
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The Fallow Deer
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immed...
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This Land's Children
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the sec...
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Red River, Black Sheep
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reaso...
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I Live When I Die
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and ...
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Sayılı Kabadayılar
A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for O...
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Both Were Brave
The film is about two gangsters facing each other. Yalçın is the most notorious gangster in the city...
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Pain
Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the vi...
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Friend
After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed ha...
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The Father
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his ...
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Kozanoğlu
Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requeste...
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İnce Memed Vuruldu
A notorious bandit known as İnce Memed falls in love with club singer Sabah, but when he travels to ...
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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other e...
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Prangasız Mahkumlar
Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he emb...
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Silahların Kanunu
The film is about a cop who switches places with a criminal who robbed a bank. Yılmaz Ali stole a bu...
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Autour du mur
One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the...
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Live Target
An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't...
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Hope
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the dese...
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Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause
A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and re...
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Son Kızgın Adam
During a robbery, Yılmaz is caught by the police. He hides the stolen money for later and flees to a...
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Bride of the Earth
In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatol...
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Zeyno
Murat and Zeynep are deeply in love, but there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their love...
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The Hopeless Ones
O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equall...
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Tehlikeli Adam
The film tells the story of a man trying to find his wife's killer. Returning from a business trip, ...
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Kovboy Ali
The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy....
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Horse, Woman and Gun
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love bet...
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Belanın Yedi Türlüsü
The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the nee...
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Azrail Benim
A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with ...
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Balatlı Arif
Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his fat...
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Büyük Cellatlar
Kerim Şamil, the head of a notorious executioner syndicate, finds himself in a deadly confrontation ...
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Eşrefpaşalı
The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborh...
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Nuri the Flea
Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in i...
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Silah ve Namus
A man who earns his living as a driver is forced to become a hired killer as a result of unexpected ...
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The Profiteers
The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after ...
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Yiğit Yaralı Olur
The film tells the story of Yusuf and Gül, who are planning to get married, and their lives that are...
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Tomorrow is The Last Day
Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple li...
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Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films
A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney...
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Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village a...
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Sezercik Yavrum Benim
A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not a...
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An Ugly Man
Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who colle...
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Kuduz Recep
The film tells the story of a gang leader who helps in the national struggle. Paşa receives gold fro...
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Banus, the Horse Thief
The film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he kidnapped for someone else. Sadı...
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Fugitives
Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensiti...
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Private Osman
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts th...
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Tütün Zamanı
Zeliş and Cemal are neighbors. The two young people, who are in love with each other, dream of getti...
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Tatlı Bela
The film tells the story of a young man who starts working for a wealthy family. Osman works for a g...
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
The story of a journalist and a prostitution ring that leads young girls astray. Faruk, who is marri...
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Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü
The film is about two friends trying to take down a crime gang. Metin, who was recently suspended fr...
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Kara Şahin
The film tells the story of Kara Şahin, a brave hero who fights against injustice and also searches ...
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Krallar Kralı
It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While search...
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Kibar Haydut
A man who has been wanted by the police for a long time disguises himself as a stowaway and hides on...
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Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at...
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