Yılmaz Güney
Born: 1937-04-01 in Adana, Turkey
Died: 1984-09-09
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2017
- The Legend of the Ugly King as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause as Self (archive footage)
1987
- We Called Him the Ugly King as Self (archive footage)
- Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films as Self (archive footage)
1983
- The Wall ... (Director)
- Autour du mur as Self
1980
- The Enemy ... (Writer)
1979
- The Herd ... (Writer)
1978
- Düzen ... (Story)
1976
- Sürgün ... (Writer)
1975
- The Poor as Abuzer
- İzin ... (Writer)
- Certainly One Day ... (Writer)
- İnce Memed Vuruldu
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Anxiety ... (Writer)
- Friend as Azem
1971
- The Profiteers as Cesi
- Fugitives as Osman
- The Hopeless Ones as Firat
- The Father as Cemal
- Sezercik Yavrum Benim as Çirkin Kral
- Pain as Çiçek Ali
- The Warning as Doktor
- Çirkin ve Cesur
- Silah ve Namus as İlyas
- Tomorrow is The Last Day as Kara Çocuk
1970
- Zeyno as Murat
- Private Osman as Piyade Osman
- Hope as Cabbar
- Yedi Belalılar as Banos
- Live Target as Asim Mavzer
- Son Kızgın Adam
- Şeytan Kayaları as Ali
1969
- The Hungry Wolves as Serçe Memet
- Altın Koza as Self - Winner
- An Ugly Man as Bino
- Belanın Yedi Türlüsü as Zaza Sehmuz
- Kan Su Gibi Akacak as Ali
- Bin Defa Ölürüm as Rıfat
1968
- Nuri the Flea as Pire Nuri
- Azrail Benim as Büyük Örfi
- Beyaz Atlı’nın Dönüşü
- Bride of the Earth as Seyyit
- Aslan Bey
- Beyoğlu Canavarı as Kadir
1967
- Kozanoğlu as Kozanoğlu Hüseyin
- İnce Cumali as Cumali
- Kuduz Recep as Kuduz Recep
- Çirkin Kral Affetmez as Yusuf Dağcı
- My Name Is Kerim
- Banus, the Horse Thief
- Bullets Won't Touch Me as Yadigar
- Red River, Black Sheep as Ali Haydar
- Kurbanlık Katil as Mustafa
- Balatlı Arif as Arif
- Büyük Cellatlar as Samil
1966
- Law of the Border as Hıdır
- Eşrefpaşalı as Kudret
- Silahların Kanunu as Metin Demir
- Yiğit Yaralı Olur as Yusuf
- Kovboy Ali as Kovboy Ali
- Ve Silahlara Veda as Hikmet
- Kibar Haydut as Ali
- Horse, Woman and Gun as Yusufcuk
- The Ugly King as Çirkin Kral
1965
- Konyakçı as Konyakçı
- Gönül Kuşu
- Dağların Oğlu as Ahmet
- Kahreden Kurşun as Metin
- Tehlikeli Adam
- Krallar Kralı as Murat
- Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü as Metin
- Üçünüzü de mıhlarım as Yılmaz
- Beyaz Atlı Adam as Beyaz Atlı Adam
- Sokakta Kan Vardı as Turgut
- Sayılı Kabadayılar as Osman
- I Live When I Die as Ahmet
- Kasımpaşalı Recep as Recep
- Torpido Yılmaz as Yilmaz
1964
- Prangasız Mahkumlar as Rıfat
- Ten Fearless Men as Konyakçı
- Zımba Gibi Delikanlı as Yılmaz
- Mor Defter as Suphi
- Kamalı Zeybek as Kamali Zeybek
- Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası as Kemal
- Kara Şahin as Sahin
1963
- Both Were Brave as Ali Duran
1962
- Ölüme Yalnız Gidilir ... (Scenario Writer)
1961
- Tatlı Bela as Erdoğan
- Yaban Gülü ... (Writer)
1960
- Suçlu ... (Screenplay)
- Dolandırıcılar Şahı as Benzinci Genç
- The Death Curtain ... (Assistant Director)
1959
- The Fallow Deer as Halil
- Karacaoğlan'ın Kara Sevdası ... (Screenplay)
- Tütün Zamanı as Cemal