Self (archive)
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.
Self (archive footage)
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
himself
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.
Himself
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.
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.
Writer
Las condiciones de los presos en una cárcel de máxima seguridad de Ankara, en Turquía, son inhumanas. Un grupo de huérfanos kurdos recluidos en una de celdas lucha por su propia supervivencia y decide rebelarse ante las constantes vejaciones y violaciones a las que les someten los guardias. Sólo cuentan con dos opciones: intentar escapar y arriesgarse a morir en el intento, o esperar la oportunidad de ser trasladados a un centro mejor.
Director
Las condiciones de los presos en una cárcel de máxima seguridad de Ankara, en Turquía, son inhumanas. Un grupo de huérfanos kurdos recluidos en una de celdas lucha por su propia supervivencia y decide rebelarse ante las constantes vejaciones y violaciones a las que les someten los guardias. Sólo cuentan con dos opciones: intentar escapar y arriesgarse a morir en el intento, o esperar la oportunidad de ser trasladados a un centro mejor.
Co-Producer
Una prisión en Turquía. Cinco prisioneros reciben permiso para viajar a sus casas durante una semana. Los difíciles viajes para llegar hasta sus familias nos conducen a las regiones más alejadas de Turquía. Cada uno de ellos tiene sus propios problemas, preocupaciones y nostalgias. Rigurosas leyes, escritas y no escritas, y un sistema brutal son una carga que pesa sobre ellos. Sufren violencia y ejercen violencia. Las vacaciones, comenzadas con esperanza, terminan con dolor.
Director
Una prisión en Turquía. Cinco prisioneros reciben permiso para viajar a sus casas durante una semana. Los difíciles viajes para llegar hasta sus familias nos conducen a las regiones más alejadas de Turquía. Cada uno de ellos tiene sus propios problemas, preocupaciones y nostalgias. Rigurosas leyes, escritas y no escritas, y un sistema brutal son una carga que pesa sobre ellos. Sufren violencia y ejercen violencia. Las vacaciones, comenzadas con esperanza, terminan con dolor.
Editor
Una prisión en Turquía. Cinco prisioneros reciben permiso para viajar a sus casas durante una semana. Los difíciles viajes para llegar hasta sus familias nos conducen a las regiones más alejadas de Turquía. Cada uno de ellos tiene sus propios problemas, preocupaciones y nostalgias. Rigurosas leyes, escritas y no escritas, y un sistema brutal son una carga que pesa sobre ellos. Sufren violencia y ejercen violencia. Las vacaciones, comenzadas con esperanza, terminan con dolor.
Writer
Una prisión en Turquía. Cinco prisioneros reciben permiso para viajar a sus casas durante una semana. Los difíciles viajes para llegar hasta sus familias nos conducen a las regiones más alejadas de Turquía. Cada uno de ellos tiene sus propios problemas, preocupaciones y nostalgias. Rigurosas leyes, escritas y no escritas, y un sistema brutal son una carga que pesa sobre ellos. Sufren violencia y ejercen violencia. Las vacaciones, comenzadas con esperanza, terminan con dolor.
Self (voice)
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?"
Writer
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.
Writer
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.
Writer
Writer
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.
Producer
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.
Writer
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.
Azem
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Director
This award winning, 1974 film by Yilmaz Güney, the legend of Turkish Cinema, tells 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. ANXIETY documents and criticizes the feudal traditions, corruption and inhumane working conditions, while the workers are coming to terms with the machines that are rapidly modernizing the landscape.
Producer
This award winning, 1974 film by Yilmaz Güney, the legend of Turkish Cinema, tells 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. ANXIETY documents and criticizes the feudal traditions, corruption and inhumane working conditions, while the workers are coming to terms with the machines that are rapidly modernizing the landscape.
Writer
This award winning, 1974 film by Yilmaz Güney, the legend of Turkish Cinema, tells 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. ANXIETY documents and criticizes the feudal traditions, corruption and inhumane working conditions, while the workers are coming to terms with the machines that are rapidly modernizing the landscape.
Abuzer
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Bülent Akif
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.
Writer
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.
Çobanoğlu
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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.
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.
Director
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.
İlyas
Writer
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!
Writer
Director
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!
Writer
Two close friends spend their lives stealing. The mafia unites against them.
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!
Cesi
Two close friends spend their lives stealing. The mafia unites against them.
Osman
Writer
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…
Writer
"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.
Cemal
"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.
Director
"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.
Director
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…
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…
Writer
Murat
Writer
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.
Director
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.
Piyade Osman
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.
Producer
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.
Writer
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.
Cabbar
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.
Director
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.
Screenplay
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.
Asim Mavzer
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.
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.
Writer
"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.
Director
"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.
Bino
"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.
Producer
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…
Writer
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…
Serçe Memet
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…
Director
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…
Writer
Director
Seyyit
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Writer
Samil
Writer
Kozanoğlu Hüseyin
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.
Writer
Writer
Cumali
Kuduz Recep
Ali Haydar
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.
Writer
La vida en la frontera es realmente difícil. La tierra es pedregosa y seca, los agricultores aran los campos de arena y las actividades ilegales parecen el único recurso. En Deliviran, un pueblo al lado de Urfa, cerca de la frontera siria, el jefe de Hidir, implicado en un tráfico de migrantes, es asesinado. Hidir intenta mantenerse alejado de estas actividades ilegales, pero las circunstancias le obligan a pasar clandestinamente un rebaño de ovejas a Siria. Entre la miseria y las minas, Hidir lucha por mantener su sueño intacto y a su hijo con vida.
Hidir
La vida en la frontera es realmente difícil. La tierra es pedregosa y seca, los agricultores aran los campos de arena y las actividades ilegales parecen el único recurso. En Deliviran, un pueblo al lado de Urfa, cerca de la frontera siria, el jefe de Hidir, implicado en un tráfico de migrantes, es asesinado. Hidir intenta mantenerse alejado de estas actividades ilegales, pero las circunstancias le obligan a pasar clandestinamente un rebaño de ovejas a Siria. Entre la miseria y las minas, Hidir lucha por mantener su sueño intacto y a su hijo con vida.
Çirkin Kral
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
Writer
Director
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.
Writer
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.
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.
Writer
Kovboy Ali
Turkish thriller inspired by PSYCHO.
Ahmet
Yilmaz
Metin
Writer
Metin
Osman
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...
Ahmet
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.
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.
Rıfat
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.
Writer
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.
Suphi
Writer
Kemal
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.
Ali Duran
"İkisi de Cesurdu" (Both Were Brave) produced in 1963, tells the story of a gang leader in exile.
Writer
Assistant Director
Screenplay
Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
Halil
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)...
Screenplay
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)...
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.
Screenplay
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.
