Yilmaz Güney, born Yilmaz Putun, was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist who lived from 1 April 1937 to 9 September 1984. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry, and many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for Yol, which he co-directed with Şerif Gören and which is listed here as a work.
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Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol (The Road) which he co-directed with Şerif Gören.
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