Yılmaz Güney
Actor
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
Room 666
as Self (voice) 1982
Hope
as Cabbar 1970
Law of the Border
as Hıdır 1966
Friend
as Azem 1974
Bride of the Earth
as Seyyit 1968
Elegy
as Çobanoğlu 1972
The Father
as Cemal 1971
Sezercik Yavrum Benim
as Çirkin Kral 1971
The Legend of the Ugly King
as Self (archive footage) 2017
The Hungry Wolves
as Serçe Memet 1969
Red River, Black Sheep
as Ali Haydar 1967
The Hopeless Ones
as Firat 1971
The Poor
as Abuzer 1975
Live Target
as Asim Mavzer 1970
Yedi Belalılar
as Banos 1970
Ten Fearless Men
as Konyakçı 1964
Balatlı Arif
as Arif 1967