Yılmaz Güney

Yılmaz Güney

Born: April 1, 1937
Died: September 9, 1984
in Adana, Turkey
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.

Movies for Yılmaz Güney...

The Legend of the Ugly King
Title: The Legend of the Ugly King
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
Title: Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 31, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
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Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause
Title: Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 7, 2014
Type: Movie
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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Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films
Title: Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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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We Called Him the Ugly King
Title: We Called Him the Ugly King
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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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Autour du mur
Title: Autour du mur
Character: Self
Released: July 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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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Room 666
Title: Room 666
Character: Self (voice)
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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?"
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İnce Memed Vuruldu
Title: İnce Memed Vuruldu
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Friend
Title: Friend
Character: Azem
Released: October 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Poor
Title: The Poor
Character: Abuzer
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Sahtekar
Title: Sahtekar
Character: Bülent Akif
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Elegy
Title: Elegy
Character: Çobanoğlu
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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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The Hopeless Ones
Title: The Hopeless Ones
Character: Firat
Released: June 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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Silah ve Namus
Title: Silah ve Namus
Character: İlyas
Released: April 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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İbret
Title: İbret
Character: Doktor
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Yarın Son Gündür
Title: Yarın Son Gündür
Character: Kara Çocuk
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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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Vurguncular
Title: Vurguncular
Character: Cesi
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Two close friends spend their lives stealing. The mafia unites against them.
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Kaçaklar
Title: Kaçaklar
Character: Osman
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Sezercik Yavrum Benim
Title: Sezercik Yavrum Benim
Character: Çirkin Kral
Released: February 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Cemal
Released: January 2, 1971
Type: Movie
"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.
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Pain
Title: Pain
Character: Çiçek Ali
Released: January 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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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Çirkin ve Cesur
Title: Çirkin ve Cesur
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Zeyno
Title: Zeyno
Character: Murat
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
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Piyade Osman
Title: Piyade Osman
Character: Piyade Osman
Released: June 16, 1970
Type: Movie
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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Hope
Title: Hope
Character: Cabbar
Released: May 25, 1970
Type: Movie
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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Şeytan Kayaları
Title: Şeytan Kayaları
Character: Ali
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Live Target
Title: Live Target
Character: Asim Mavzer
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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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Son Kızgın Adam
Title: Son Kızgın Adam
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Yedi Belalılar
Title: Yedi Belalılar
Character: Banos
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.
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Bin Defa Ölürüm
Title: Bin Defa Ölürüm
Character: Rifat
Released: April 5, 1969
Type: Movie
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Belanın Yedi Türlüsü
Title: Belanın Yedi Türlüsü
Character: Zaza Sehmuz
Released: April 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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Kan Su Gibi Akacak
Title: Kan Su Gibi Akacak
Released: April 2, 1969
Type: Movie
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Bir Çirkin Adam
Title: Bir Çirkin Adam
Character: Bino
Released: April 1, 1969
Type: Movie
"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.
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The Hungry Wolves
Title: The Hungry Wolves
Character: Serçe Memet
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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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Pire Nuri
Title: Pire Nuri
Character: Pire Nuri
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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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Azrail Benim
Title: Azrail Benim
Character: Büyük Örfi
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Aslan Bey
Title: Aslan Bey
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Bride of the Earth
Title: Bride of the Earth
Character: Seyyit
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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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Beyoğlu Canavarı
Title: Beyoğlu Canavarı
Character: Kadir
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Büyük Cellatlar
Title: Büyük Cellatlar
Character: Samil
Released: April 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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Bana Kurşun İşlemez
Title: Bana Kurşun İşlemez
Character: Yadigar
Released: April 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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Benim Adım Kerim
Title: Benim Adım Kerim
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Balatlı Arif
Title: Balatlı Arif
Character: Arif
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Kozanoğlu
Title: Kozanoğlu
Character: Kozanoğlu Hüseyin
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Kurbanlık Katil
Title: Kurbanlık Katil
Character: Mustafa
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Red River, Black Sheep
Title: Red River, Black Sheep
Character: Ali Haydar
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Banus, the Horse Thief
Title: Banus, the Horse Thief
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Kuduz Recep
Title: Kuduz Recep
Character: Kuduz Recep
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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İnce Cumali
Title: İnce Cumali
Character: Cumali
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Çirkin Kral Affetmez
Title: Çirkin Kral Affetmez
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Law of the Border
Title: Law of the Border
Character: Hidir
Released: October 4, 1966
Type: Movie
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 Ugly King
Title: The Ugly King
Character: Çirkin Kral
Released: June 16, 1966
Type: Movie
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
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Kibar Haydut
Title: Kibar Haydut
Character: Ali
Released: May 10, 1966
Type: Movie
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Eşrefpaşalı
Title: Eşrefpaşalı
Character: Kudret
Released: April 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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At Avrat Silah
Title: At Avrat Silah
Character: Yusufcuk
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Title: Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Character: Yusuf
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Kovboy Ali
Title: Kovboy Ali
Character: Kovboy Ali
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Silahların Kanunu
Title: Silahların Kanunu
Character: Metin Demir
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Tehlikeli Adam
Title: Tehlikeli Adam
Released: July 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Turkish thriller inspired by PSYCHO.
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Dağların Oğlu
Title: Dağların Oğlu
Character: Ahmet
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Sayılı Kabadayılar
Title: Sayılı Kabadayılar
Character: Osman
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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...
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I Live When I Die
Title: I Live When I Die
Character: Ahmet
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Torpido Yılmaz
Title: Torpido Yılmaz
Character: Yilmaz
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Gönül Kuşu
Title: Gönül Kuşu
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Krallar Kralı
Title: Krallar Kralı
Character: Murat
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
Title: Sokakta Kan Vardı
Character: Turgut
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü
Title: Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü
Character: Metin
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Kahreden Kurşun
Title: Kahreden Kurşun
Character: Metin
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Ten Fearless Men
Title: Ten Fearless Men
Character: Konyakçi
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.
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Prangasiz Mahkumlar
Title: Prangasiz Mahkumlar
Character: Rıfat
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası
Title: Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası
Character: Kemal
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.
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Kamalı Zeybek
Title: Kamalı Zeybek
Character: Kamali Zeybek
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Mor Defter
Title: Mor Defter
Character: Suphi
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Kara Şahin
Title: Kara Şahin
Character: Sahin
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Both Were Brave
Title: Both Were Brave
Character: Ali Duran
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
"İkisi de Cesurdu" (Both Were Brave) produced in 1963, tells the story of a gang leader in exile.
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Tatlı Bela
Title: Tatlı Bela
Character: Erdoğan
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Tütün Zamanı
Title: Tütün Zamanı
Character: Cemal
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Fallow Deer
Title: The Fallow Deer
Character: Halil
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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)...
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This Land's Children
Title: This Land's Children
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.