FILM DIRECTOR

Yılmaz Güney

1937 - 1984

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Yılmaz Güney (né Pütün; 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol (The Road) which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yılmaz Güney is the 234th most popular film director (up from 242nd in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 478th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Film Director.

Yılmaz Güney is most famous for his role in the film Yol.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yılmaz Güney ranks 234 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert J. Flaherty, Guy Ritchie, Julien Duvivier, Ryan Murphy, Richard Donner, and Věra Chytilová. After him are Michael Cacoyannis, Robert Wiene, John Schlesinger, Otto Preminger, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Ruggero Deodato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Yılmaz Güney ranks 83. Before him are Maryanne Trump Barry, Kōichirō Matsuura, Ratan Tata, Michael Jeffery, Manuel Pinto da Costa, and Karel Schwarzenberg. After him are Tom Simpson, Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Yoshirō Mori, Tamara Bunke, and Tamara Press. Among people deceased in 1984, Yılmaz Güney ranks 50. Before him are Tito Gobbi, Brassaï, Ngô Đình Thục, Souvanna Phouma, Enrico Berlinguer, and Moshé Feldenkrais. After him are Jerzy Popiełuszko, Janet Gaynor, Kim Il, Jackie Coogan, Walter Rauff, and Josyf Slipyj.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Yılmaz Güney ranks 508 out of 1,347. Before him are Stratonice of Syria (-317), Philetaerus (-340), Eumenes III (-200), Gerasimus of the Jordan (500), Parrhasius (-500), and Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem (1145). After him are Artabazos II (-400), Nicomedes I of Bithynia (-300), Argishti I of Urartu (-827), Sezen Aksu (1954), Eustathius of Antioch (300), and Devlet Hatun (1361).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Türkiye

Among film directors born in Türkiye, Yılmaz Güney ranks 2. Before him are Elia Kazan (1909). After him are Henri Verneuil (1920), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959), Sırrı Süreyya Önder (1962), Ferzan Özpetek (1959), Semih Kaplanoğlu (1963), Yılmaz Erdoğan (1967), Yeşim Ustaoğlu (1960), Zeki Demirkubuz (1964), and Deniz Gamze Ergüven (1978).

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