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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 354,707 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yılmaz Güney is the 232nd most popular film director (down from 189th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 380th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Film Director.

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

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  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yılmaz Güney ranks 232 out of 1,581Before him are Frank Darabont, Miklós Jancsó, Richard Fleischer, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbet Schroeder, and Lucio Fulci. After him are Stephen Frears, Chris Marker, Arthur Penn, Raoul Walsh, Julien Duvivier, and Youssef Chahine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Yılmaz Güney ranks 70Before him are Vladimir Arnold, George Takei, Mario Capecchi, Angelo Badalamenti, Valentin Pavlov, and Robert B. Wilson. After him are Joseph Nye, Fernando de la Rúa, Tamara Press, John Horton Conway, Cüneyt Arkın, and Rafael Moneo. Among people deceased in 1984, Yılmaz Güney ranks 44Before him are Oskar Werner, Joseph Losey, Tito Gobbi, Brassaï, Janet Gaynor, and James Mason. After him are Enrico Berlinguer, Pavel Batitsky, Walter Rauff, Jiro Miyake, Count Basie, and Hans Speidel.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Yılmaz Güney ranks 449 out of 1,301Before him are Paul of Samosata (200), Stephanus of Byzantium (501), Eutropius (400), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Artemisia II of Caria (null), and Irene Doukaina (1066). After him are Parrhasius (-500), Fan Noli (1882), Leo I, King of Armenia (1150), Theodore of Mopsuestia (350), Eutyches (380), and Türkan Şoray (1945).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Turkey

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

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