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Apr 01, 1937 Siverek, Turkey Died on 09 Sep 1984 (aged 47)
Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor
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About Yılmaz Güney
- Yilmaz Güney (born Yilmaz Pütün, 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor, who produced movies in Turkish.
- 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 Serif Gören at 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.
- After being accused of killing a judge, something Yilmaz claimed to be innocent of, and being convicted in a controversial trial in 1974, he fled the country and later lost his citizenship.
