Yılmaz Güney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yılmaz Güney

Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Siverek, Turkey

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1984

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, poet, film director, film editor, film actor

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yilmaz Güney (born Yilmaz Pütün, 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor, who produced movies in Turkish.
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 Serif Gören at 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.
After being accused of killing a judge, something Yilmaz claimed to be innocent of, and being convicted in a controversial trial in 1974, he fled the country and later lost his citizenship.