FILM DIRECTOR

Yılmaz Güney

1937 - 1984

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Yılmaz Güney (né Pütün) 1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yılmaz Güney has received more than 381,504 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Yılmaz Güney is the 242nd most popular film director (down from 232nd in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 447th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Film Director.

Yılmaz Güney is most famous for his role in the film Yol.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yılmaz Güney ranks 242 out of 2,041. Before him are Terence Young, Jacques Becker, Béla Tarr, Jafar Panahi, Michael Moore, and James Ivory. After him are Bertrand Tavernier, Víctor Erice, John Sturges, Lucio Fulci, Karel Zeman, and G. W. Pabst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Yılmaz Güney ranks 75. Before him are Tamara Press, Cüneyt Arkın, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Dragoslav Šekularac, Tamara Bunke, and Hunter S. Thompson. After him are Joseph Nye, Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, and Jerry Reed. Among people deceased in 1984, Yılmaz Güney ranks 46. Before him are Yigael Yadin, Enrico Berlinguer, Moshé Feldenkrais, Walter Rauff, Pavel Batitsky, and James Mason. After him are Brassaï, Jackie Coogan, Jerzy Popiełuszko, Joseph Losey, Chaïm Perelman, and George Gaylord Simpson.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Yılmaz Güney ranks 393 out of 1,347. Before him are Callippus (-370), Nicholas Mystikos (852), Eunapius (349), Sezen Aksu (1954), Artemidorus (200), and Halit Ergenç (1970). After him are Walter Sydney Adams (1876), Callinus (-680), Muzafer Sherif (1906), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Markos Vafeiadis (1906), and Sultan Kösen (1982).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Türkiye

Among film directors born in Türkiye, Yılmaz Güney ranks 2. Before him are Elia Kazan (1909). After him are Henri Verneuil (1920), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959), Ferzan Özpetek (1959), Yılmaz Erdoğan (1967), Semih Kaplanoğlu (1963), Sırrı Süreyya Önder (1962), Yeşim Ustaoğlu (1960), Zeki Demirkubuz (1964), and Deniz Gamze Ergüven (1978).

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