Yılmaz Güney

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.

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Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the last years of his life. The recognition Güney received as a filmmaker in France brought him the Palme D'or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival for his film "The Road." The documentary builds a bridge between France and Turkey through Yılmaz Güney, tracing his footsteps in Paris, the filming process of "The Wall," the lives he influenced through his political struggle and cinema, and the stories of those who were forced to leave their country after September 12th, who came to France as immigrants, his friends and colleagues, and the life stories of exiled people whose paths somehow intersected with his during this journey.

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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). Güney was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movie.

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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". The film includes the last interview Guney did before his death.

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A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.

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Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.

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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?"

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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. Guney himself comes across as often angry and impatient; he slaps a young actor so as to make him cry for a scene and shows about as much warmth as December in Moscow. Unfortunately, none of this contributes to garnering sympathy for his anti-military cause.

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The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.

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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.

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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. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin. Politically committed, he aspires to be useful to his country and more particularly to the forsaken rural world. The two former friends meet again. Due to the influence of Azem, Ahmed gradually becomes aware that his life is a failure.

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Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

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A romance between Firat and Çigdem.

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A man who earns his living as a driver is forced to become a hired killer as a result of unexpected events that befall him. And his struggle to escape this situation.

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The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.

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Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police are still suspicious about them. While police are waiting for their mistake, their enemies are determined to give them two choices: work for us or die!

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The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.

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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.

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A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his father who abandoned him and his mother years ago.

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Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali killed the young Avanos’ son Yasin and went to prison for 15 years. The film starts with Ali being released and returning to the village…

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"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istanbul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.

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The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it tells of the struggle of the young man nicknamed Yabancı (The Stranger).

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Murat and Zeynep are deeply in love, but there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their love. The two lovers have been defeated by a blood feud and are unable to be together.

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A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.

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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.

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An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played by Yilmaz Guney has to take the revenge for his daughter.

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The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

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During a robbery, Yılmaz is caught by the police. He hides the stolen money for later and flees to a village, wounded. He falls in love with Selma, who takes care of him. They live a quiet life until Yılmaz returns to Istanbul.

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The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul’s murky underbelly, where danger lurks at every turn and allegiances shift unpredictably. His relentless pursuit of retribution cuts through a city riddled with corruption and hardship, marking each step as both a struggle and a testament to survival.

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Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.

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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. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.

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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.

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Ismail (Aytac Arman) is the educated Turk who travels to Asia from Istanbul to escape crushing unemployment in this somber social drama. With an ailing mother-in-law, a bitter wife, and a pretty young daughter to support, he takes a job as a dog killer. Ismail is saddened to see young women his daughter's age forced into prostitution. When he returns home to ask his father and brother for an advance on his inheritance, his wife leaves him. The enemy in question refers to unemployment.

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Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.

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A story of love and blood feud. A club run by a gangster known as Kemal from Maraş is raided by his enemies. During the raid, Kemal kills the brother of one of his enemies. Kemal meets a young girl in a traffic accident. The girl falls in love with Kemal. However, Kemal does not reveal his feelings to her in order to keep her out of his dirty business.

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The story of four days spent by a hired killer who benefited from the amnesty law with a hired woman.

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The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.

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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.

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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. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin. Politically committed, he aspires to be useful to his country and more particularly to the forsaken rural world. The two former friends meet again. Due to the influence of Azem, Ahmed gradually becomes aware that his life is a failure.

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The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey. Cevher depends on the family earnings from the fields to pay blood money for a murder one of his relatives committed. On the cotton fields, people also have to compete with machines, which are preferred to human workers. Eventually, the workers unite and go on strike.

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A romance between Firat and Çigdem.

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The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.

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Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police are still suspicious about them. While police are waiting for their mistake, their enemies are determined to give them two choices: work for us or die!

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The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.

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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.

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Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali killed the young Avanos’ son Yasin and went to prison for 15 years. The film starts with Ali being released and returning to the village…

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"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istanbul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.

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The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it tells of the struggle of the young man nicknamed Yabancı (The Stranger).

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A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.

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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.

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An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played by Yilmaz Guney has to take the revenge for his daughter.

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The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

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The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul’s murky underbelly, where danger lurks at every turn and allegiances shift unpredictably. His relentless pursuit of retribution cuts through a city riddled with corruption and hardship, marking each step as both a struggle and a testament to survival.

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Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business. Bino is paid by the weight of his victims.

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Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. One day he saves a woman from the hands of bandits…

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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.

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Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police station. But he somehow escapes punishment. Meanwhile, Hacıhüsrevli Melahat, a notorious pickpocket, comes to the neighborhood where Pire Nuri lives. Hearing this, Pire Nuri goes after Melahat to attract her to his side. However, this time, things don't go as planned. (Ayşe Pay)

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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. Seyyit Han postpones their marriage so that he can make his fortune elsewhere and return to the village to claim his "bride of the earth." During his prolonged absence, a rich landowner begins to woo the lonely woman, and her brother, intent upon making this propitious wedding happen, spreads the rumor that Seyyit Han has died.

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Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.

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The story of an undercover cop living with his son.

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The film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he kidnapped for someone else. Sadık Ağa wants Rasim Ağa's daughter Zeynep. However, Rasim Ağa refuses to give him his daughter. Sadık Ağa, who wants to have Zeynep, finds a solution in kidnapping her. He asks Banuş, a notorious horse thief in the area, to kidnap the girl. Banuş kidnaps Zeynep in exchange for a sum of money and hands her over to Sadık Ağa. Sadık Ağa immediately begins wedding preparations. Meanwhile, Banuş regrets what he has done. He raids Sadık Ağa's estate, takes Zeynep, and returns her to her father. After these events, Banuş and Zeynep will fall in love with each other.

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In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.

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The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborhood. Ali Bey, who has made a deal with the Americans, wants to build a factory in the Eşrefpaşa neighborhood. To do so, he must first evict the neighborhood's residents. Ali Bey recruits Hasan, the neighborhood's tough guy, to help him achieve his goal. Kudret, who refuses to leave the neighborhood, organizes the people against Ali Bey. However, Ali Bey lures Kudret's inner circle to his side with various promises. Left to fight alone, Kudret will face his friends one last time.

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