Yılmaz Güney Trailers
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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.
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01 April 1971
The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.
01 March 1971
Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman.
01 January 1969
Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife.
01 January 1965
A wealthy businessman places an advertisement in the newspaper to marry off his college student daughter.
02 January 1967
Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey.
16 June 1970
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.
01 January 1966
The film is about a cop who switches places with a criminal who robbed a bank. Yılmaz Ali stole a bunch of gold from the bank.
22 June 1971
A romance between Firat and Çigdem.
04 October 1966
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot.
14 September 2017
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.
01 January 1971
The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers.
03 April 1967
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.
24 February 1985
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?
01 January 1964
Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order established by a landowner.
31 December 1964
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.
01 January 1987
A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol".
01 January 1967
The film tells the story of a gang leader who helps in the national struggle. Paşa receives gold from foreign powers in order to neutralize the National Forces.
01 September 1982
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
25 May 1970
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
01 January 1959
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her.
03 April 1967
Kerim Şamil, the head of a notorious executioner syndicate, finds himself in a deadly confrontation when his own organization turns against him.
01 January 1975
Based on Yılmaz Güney's script and filmed in semi-documentary style, the movie provides a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues in 1970s.
01 January 1966
The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy.
26 July 1983
One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in Turkey and at the same time, director Patrick Blossier began shooting this documentary on the techniques used by Guney to elicit the best performances from his actors.
01 January 1967
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.
07 May 2014
A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and revolutionary Yilmaz Güney, who achieved international fame by films like Yol (Palm d'Or, 1982) and Sürü (Golden Leopard, 1978).
01 January 1970
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.
02 January 1971
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family.
01 January 1987
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death.
01 April 1971
The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.
01 April 1968
In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection.
01 January 1958
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.
01 April 1971
Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime.
01 February 1983
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments.
27 September 1978
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara.
12 June 1974
The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey.
01 October 1974
After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie.
01 March 1975
The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses.
01 January 1964
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.
16 June 1966
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
02 January 1980
Ismail (Aytac Arman) is the educated Turk who travels to Asia from Istanbul to escape crushing unemployment in this somber social drama.
02 January 1965
It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While searching for a way out of his poverty, Murat gets involved in Yusuf and Sabri's robbery plans.
01 April 1968
A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his community.
01 April 1967
Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver.
01 January 1975
A notorious bandit known as İnce Memed falls in love with club singer Sabah, but when he travels to Istanbul to propose, criminals mistakenly murder her instead, prompting revenge.
