Best Director Golden Boll Award Winners - Y?lmaz G Ney, Tun Ba?aran, U?ur y Cel, Zeki Demirkubuz, Metin Erksan (Paperback)

Chapters: Y?lmaz G ney, Tun Ba?aran, U?ur Y cel, Zeki Demirkubuz, Metin Erksan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ylmaz G ney, (born Ylmaz P t n, 1 April 1937 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor of Kurdish descent. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. He described himself as an "assimilated Kurd." Ylmaz G ney was born in 1937 in the Yenice county of Adana, the agricultural and industrial capital of southern Turkey. His father was a Zaza from Siverek, and his mother was a Kurmanci Kurd from Varto, Turkey. His parents migrated to Adana to work as cotton field laborers. As a result of his family background young Ylmaz grew among the working class poor, which formed a strong background for his future works which generally focused on a realistic portrayal of down and out people in Turkey. G ney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in film-making. As Yeil am, the Turkish studio system, grew in strength, a handful of directors, including Atf Ylmaz, began to use the cinema as a means of addressing the problems of the people. Mostly, state-sanctioned melodramas, war films and play adaptations had previously played in Turkish theaters, but these new filmmakers began to fill the screens with more artistic, personal and relevant pictures of Turkish/Kurdish life. Ylmaz G ney was the most popular name to emerge from the Young Turkish Cinema, a gruff-looking young actor who earned the moniker " irkin Kral," ("the Ugly King") or (pasha nashrin) in Kurdish. After working as an apprentice screenwriter for and assistant to Atf Ylmaz, G ney soon began appearing in as many as 20 films a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1377091