01-04-1937
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
81
Total Films
Йылмаз Гюней, یەڵماز گیونەی
Also known as (male)
Adana, Turkey
Place of Birth
01-04-1937
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
81
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Adana, Turkey
Place of Birth
actor
81 Works
producer
9 Works
director
80 Works
writer
44 Works
other
3 Works
The Legend of the Ugly King
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.Year:
2017
Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.Year:
2016
Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause
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.Year:
2014
Yılmaz Güney: Adana-Paris
Year:
1995
We Called Him the Ugly King
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.Year:
1987
Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films
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.Year:
1987
Autour du mur
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.Year:
1983
Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks 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?"Year:
1982
İnce Memed Vuruldu
Year:
1975
Friend
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.Year:
1974
The Poor
The Poor Ones tells 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.Year:
1974
Sahtekar
Year:
1972
Elegy
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.Year:
1972
The Hopeless Ones
O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a bad-ass outlaw that she will have to worry about reading his obituary every day. They can not consummate their passions because... now brace yourself, because Firat's badman partners won't allow him (Firat is the top crime dog) to have a girl friend.Year:
1971
Silah ve Namus
Year:
1971
The Warning
The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.Year:
1971
Tomorrow is The Last Day
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!Year:
1971
The Profiteers
The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.Year:
1971
Fugitives
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.Year:
1971
Sezercik Yavrum Benim
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.Year:
1971
The Father
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. 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.Year:
1971
Pain
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…Year:
1971
Çirkin ve Cesur
Year:
1971
Zeyno
Year:
1970
Private Osman
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.Year:
1970
Hope
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.Year:
1970
Şeytan Kayaları
Year:
1970
Live Target
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.Year:
1970
Son Kızgın Adam
Year:
1970
Yedi Belalılar
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.Year:
1970
Bin Defa Ölürüm
Year:
1969
Belanın Yedi Türlüsü
Year:
1969
Kan Su Gibi Akacak
Year:
1969
An Ugly Man
"A Bad Man" - 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.Year:
1969
The Hungry Wolves
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…Year:
1969
Nuri the Flea
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)Year:
1968
Aslan Bey
Year:
1968
Azrail Benim
Year:
1968
Beyoğlu Canavarı
Year:
1968
Bride of the Earth
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.Year:
1968
Büyük Cellatlar
Year:
1967
Bullets Won't Touch Me
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.Year:
1967
My Name Is Kerim
The story of an undercover cop living with his son.Year:
1967
Balatlı Arif
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. Gülşen, the long-time girlfriend of Arif, who is studying at medical school, waits for the day when school ends and they get married. However, Arif falls in love with Çiğdem, the daughter of a rich family, whom he met at school. Caught between two different lives, Arif is forced to make a choice.Year:
1967
Kozanoğlu
Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation, Hüseyin takes an oath to avenge.Year:
1967
Kurbanlık Katil
Year:
1967
Banus, the Horse Thief
Year:
1967
Çirkin Kral Affetmez
Year:
1967
Red River, Black Sheep
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.Year:
1967
İnce Cumali
Year:
1967
Kuduz Recep
Year:
1967
Law of the Border
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.Year:
1966
The Ugly King
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.Year:
1966
Kibar Haydut
Year:
1966
Eşrefpaşalı
Year:
1966
Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Year:
1966
Horse, Woman and Gun
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life.Year:
1966
Silahların Kanunu
Year:
1966
Kovboy Ali
Year:
1966
Tehlikeli Adam
Turkish thriller inspired by PSYCHO.Year:
1965
Dağların Oğlu
Year:
1965
Krallar Kralı
Year:
1965
Gönül Kuşu
Year:
1965
Sokakta Kan Vardı
Year:
1965
Kahreden Kurşun
Year:
1965
Sayılı Kabadayılar
A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for murder, belongs to those who are expected to benefit from this amnesty law...Year:
1965
I Live When I Die
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz Güney confirms his acting qualities with a pathetic composition.Year:
1965
Torpido Yılmaz
Year:
1965
Üçünüzü de mıhlarım
Year:
1965
Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü
Year:
1965
Ten Fearless Men
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.Year:
1964
Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.Year:
1964
Kamalı Zeybek
Year:
1964
Kara Şahin
Year:
1964
Prangasız Mahkumlar
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.Year:
1964
Mor Defter
Year:
1964
Both Were Brave
"İkisi de Cesurdu" (Both Were Brave) produced in 1963, tells the story of a gang leader in exile.Year:
1963
Tatlı Bela
Year:
1961
Tütün Zamanı
Year:
1959
The Fallow Deer
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time later, when Aga goes back to marry her, he instructs his men to eliminate the obstacle, namely Halil (Yilmaz Güney)...Year:
1959
This Land's Children
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.Year:
1958
