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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.


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.

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.

Yılmaz and a friend go to a bar called Maça Kızı. Yılmaz meets a girl there. The girl's mysterious demeanor suggests that she knows something. After a while, the two friends start following her. The girl enters a heroin factory. The man who manufactures heroin is the girl's father. When they decide to raid the secret network uncovered through their surveillance, Yılmaz is trapped and captured. While the smugglers are taking Yılmaz to the marble cutting machines, his friends notice the situation and rescue him. The heroin smugglers set another trap to kill Yılmaz. But Yılmaz escapes this trap as well, and in the ensuing gunfight, the girl's father is killed, but the smugglers are also captured.

A wealthy businessman places an advertisement in the newspaper to marry off his college student daughter. The intriguing marriage ad catches the attention of a gangster gang hostile to the girl's father. The gangsters, posing as a wealthy businessman, demand the girl from her father. After some time, the young man marries the girl. The young vagabond, whom the gangsters used as bait for the wealthy father, is actually a kind-hearted person. After taking the girl, whom he was forced to marry under the gang's pressure, to the hotel, he leaves her there and flees. The girl is left as a hostage at the hotel. On the wedding night, she hands over the diamonds and pearls her husband gave her as a gift to the hotel owner in exchange for her debt. However, all the jewels are fake. The girl's father is informed by phone.

The film tells the story of how Suphi brings together the people around him in the imaginary world he has created. Suphi's girlfriend İffet dies in an accident. Feeling responsible for the accident, Suphi loses his sanity. He begins to construct a story in his mind. In the story, İffet is first killed. The autopsy reveals that İffet was killed using one of the methods that leave no trace. His brother-in-law, Professor İsmail Sami, directs suspicion toward Suphi. Suphi begins to uncover the truth behind the events with the help of Meryem, İsmail Sami's assistant. However, as Suphi himself begins to doubt the truth, the events take a complicated turn.

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…

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).

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

Mustafa, known by the nickname "Ipsiz," is a drunkard and a wine lover. He spends the 3-5 kuruş he earns in taverns and is despised by everyone around him. Mustafa lives a poor life, sleeping on the beach at night, while completely different lives are being lived right next to him. A wealthy businessman wants to buy a plot of land near Mustafa's neighborhood to build large houses, but the landowner refuses to sell. The businessman, who has decided to kill the landowner, assigns one of his men to carry out the task. One day, this man comes to the tavern where Mustafa drinks every night and, upon seeing him, sets out to train him as a hired killer.

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.

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.

Directed by Atif Yilmaz.


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).


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. They promise not to betray each other if they get caught. Murat is caught at the last moment. He takes all the blame and is sentenced to twenty years in prison. Yusuf and Sabri break their promise and do not visit Murat in prison. Murat spends years waiting for the day he will be released. During this time, Yusuf and Sabri invest the money they earned and become wealthy. When Murat is released, he demands a share not only of the money from the robbery but of everything they own. When Yusuf and Sabri refuse, a bitter struggle ensues between them.

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.

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.

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.






