Yılmaz Güney

Directing

Yılmaz Güney

Born 1937-04-01 Adana, Turkey 95 films

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 …

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Filmography

95 films
Elegy poster

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are ha…

Elegy

★ 6.1 1985

Room 666 poster

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one a…

Room 666

★ 6.6 1985

Autour du mur poster

One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film th…

Autour du mur

★ 0.0 1983

The Poor poster

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on vari…

The Poor

★ 6.0 1975

Friend poster

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed h…

Friend

★ 7.1 1974