Memduh Ün

Directing

Memduh Ün

Born 1920-03-14 · Kasımpaşa, İstanbul, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu

Turkish football player, film director, actor, editor, screenwriter, producer, lecturer and Honorary Professor. He graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1937. In 1938, he dropped out of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in the third year of his education. Ün changed the language of cinema by going beyond the melodrama mould with the film Üc Arkadas in 1958. The film was considered one of the best films of Turkish cinema. Thanks to his success in this film, he was invited to the Film Friends Association and became one of the important directors of Turkish cinema. During this period, he started to live with Fatma Girik and the couple's relationship continued for life. In 1960, he started the era of child stars in Turkish cinema history with the film Aysecik. After his success with Aysecik, his partnership with Arsavir Alyanak at Yakut Film ended and he founded Ugur Film. In 1990, he made his first self-financed film, Tüm Kapilar Kapaliydi, in which he turned to a subject and cinematography not seen in his previous films. This was followed by the films Gün Ortasinda Karanlik and Zikkimin Kökü, which received many awards. The last film he directed was Sinema Bir Mucizedir (2005), but due to his illness he could not complete the film and handed it over to Tunc Basaran. He worked as a lecturer at Mimar Sinan University Cinema-TV Department. Film worker Memduh Ün died on 16 October 2015 at the age of 95 in Bodrum where he was being treated. IMDb mini bio by; yusufpiskin

Acting credits

Walking After Midnight poster
4.3

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

Walking After Midnight

1992

Çarıklı Milyoner poster
6.5

Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

Çarıklı Milyoner

1983

Zübük poster
8.5

This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.

Zübük

1980

Ölüm Peşimizde poster
8.0

Burhan works as a driver at the factory where his father works. He is also preparing to marry Zehra, one of the factory workers. Zehra's brother Hüsnü and the factory accountant Namık hatch a plan to rob the factory. They decide to rob the factory's treasurer. They agree with two more workers from the factory to help them. During the robbery, something goes wrong. Hüsnü kills the treasurer and one of the workers and escapes. Nazif Usta, who was at the factory at the time, is arrested at the scene and sentenced to death in court. However, Burhan will try to find the culprits to save his father.

Ölüm Peşimizde

1960

Hayat Acıları poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayat Acıları

1951

The Broken Lifes poster
6.7

Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the same time troubles are started.

The Broken Lifes

1965

The Death Curtain poster
9.0

The plot of Death Curtain is incredibly interesting. According to the film, communists are about to blow up Istanbul with a secret bomb hidden in a curtain, but Murat Davman saves Turkey from this disaster. In the film, the leader of the communists is a woman named Leyla Sayar, while the leader of the Turkish police is another woman, Muallâ Kaynak. Murat Davman, meanwhile, is busy dealing with the bomb while also managing to keep up with both women thanks to his "little" flirtations.

The Death Curtain

1960

Damga poster
8.0

The story of Asuman, a rich girl who has had various romantic adventures but has never been able to marry and has fallen into a life of debauchery.

Damga

1948

Vahşi Sevda poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vahşi Sevda

1966

Unmade Bed poster
3.0

Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love with Ismail, who works as a waitress at an invitation she attends.

Unmade Bed

1984

We Hit The Road poster
9.0

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

We Hit The Road

2014

Günahkar Baba poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Günahkar Baba

1955

Whistle If You Come Back poster
6.5

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

Whistle If You Come Back

1993

As Long as We Live poster
7.0

Blinded because of Orhan, Ayse falls in love with Orhan, whose face she cannot see. However, Ayse's possibility to see will cause a dilemma for Orhan, who is afraid of losing her.

As Long as We Live

1969

Mahallenin Sevgilisi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mahallenin Sevgilisi

1960

Aşk Istıraptır poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aşk Istıraptır

1953

Vagabond poster
7.2

Kazım earns his living by fishing and selling books on the street. The lonely life he has been leading for many years in his small hut, has made him despise all humans and himself. But a new encounter reminds him that he is human again.

Vagabond

1967

Delicesine poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Delicesine

1976

Feryat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feryat

1973

For Chastity poster
6.5

A young taxi-driver tries to make his newly married wife happy and joyful. But the wife, seduced by luxury and class, thinks otherwise and it leads to bad outcomes.

For Chastity

1960

Poor poster
6.8

Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.

Poor

1986

Sezercik Aslan Parçası poster
4.5

Sedat, a famous factory owner, falls in love with Sevim, a worker in his factory, and marries her. However, his family does not want this marriage. Meral, a rich woman in love with Sedat, wants revenge. Making a plan with Sedat's brother Nedim, Meral traps Sevim and makes it look like she is cheating on Sedat. Unable to accept this situation, Sevim shoots her husband's brother Nedim and goes to jail. Meanwhile, Sevim is pregnant and gives birth to her baby in prison. When she gets out after serving her sentence, she realizes that the outside is just as cruel as prison.

Sezercik Aslan Parçası

1972

Yaban Kız poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yaban Kız

1954

İstanbul 79 poster
7.3

The life story of a family who migrated from a small town in Anatolia to Istanbul. Ömer from the family runs a gas cylinder dealership in the big city. Meanwhile, he gets involved in dirty business with a friend. Having severed ties with his family, Ömer cannot extricate himself from these shady dealings, even if he wanted to. He continues to live his life amidst Istanbul's vibrant and shadowy nightlife.

İstanbul 79

1979

Behind the camera

Kanlı Nigar poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kanlı Nigar

1981

Kanlı Nigar poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kanlı Nigar

1981

Star Hill poster
8.5

A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.

Star Hill

1965

Star Hill poster
8.5

A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.

Star Hill

1965

Star Hill poster
8.5

A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.

Star Hill

1965

Güneş Doğmasın poster
9.0

Turkish adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" (This Gun for Hire).

Güneş Doğmasın

1961

Köroğlu poster
6.9

The epic tells about the life and heroic deeds of Koroghlu (literally "son of the blind man") as a hero of the people who struggled against unjust rulers, defending his clan or tribe.

Köroğlu

1968

Çarıklı Milyoner poster
6.5

Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

Çarıklı Milyoner

1983

Çarıklı Milyoner poster
6.5

Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

Çarıklı Milyoner

1983

Zıkkımın Kökü poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zıkkımın Kökü

1993

The Empty Crib poster
8.0

Despite the intense pressure from the environment and the fact that relatives do not accept the situation, Ali, who loves Fatma very much, is determined not to leave his wife. After years of depression, the couple has a child. But a wild bird that appears during a migration will upset all plans again.

The Empty Crib

1969

The Empty Crib poster
8.0

Despite the intense pressure from the environment and the fact that relatives do not accept the situation, Ali, who loves Fatma very much, is determined not to leave his wife. After years of depression, the couple has a child. But a wild bird that appears during a migration will upset all plans again.

The Empty Crib

1969

Seviştiğimiz Günler poster
9.0

Sevistigimiz Gunler is a typical socio-economic story of three roommate girls in their early 20s' who are hoping to find their Prince Charmings. With a lot of references to Billy Wilder romance flicks, Things go crazy and wild when they both fall in love with three men. So their lives change dramatically as they forget about the bet, and come on the edge of marriage and pregnancy. But are the men whom they fell in love with, really worth considering as Prince Charmings, or are they just cheaters slickers?

Seviştiğimiz Günler

1961

Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür poster
9.0

Turkish adaptation of Alejandro Casona's classic play Los Árboles Mueren De Pie.

Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür

1964

The Tricycle poster
6.7

Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.

The Tricycle

1962

Çöl Kartalı poster
7.8

Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.

Çöl Kartalı

1972

Çöl Kartalı poster
7.8

Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.

Çöl Kartalı

1972

Namus poster
6.0

Orhan, the son of Kemal Bey, the owner of the farm, rapes Zeynep, the daughter of Ali Kâhya. Zeynep, who had pinned her hopes on the promise of marriage, does not tell anyone about it. When Kemal Bey learns of the situation, he decides to marry the couple. However, he dies before his wish can be fulfilled. Orhan, who does not want to marry Zeynep, sells her to others. Unable to return to her village due to this situation, Zeynep begins working as a prostitute. When Ali Kâhya comes to Istanbul, the truth is revealed. Ali Kâhya takes Zeynep and returns to the village. However, the evil Orhan will inflict on the family does not end there.

Namus

1973

The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet poster
6.8

Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet

1976

Ölüm Peşimizde poster
8.0

Burhan works as a driver at the factory where his father works. He is also preparing to marry Zehra, one of the factory workers. Zehra's brother Hüsnü and the factory accountant Namık hatch a plan to rob the factory. They decide to rob the factory's treasurer. They agree with two more workers from the factory to help them. During the robbery, something goes wrong. Hüsnü kills the treasurer and one of the workers and escapes. Nazif Usta, who was at the factory at the time, is arrested at the scene and sentenced to death in court. However, Burhan will try to find the culprits to save his father.

Ölüm Peşimizde

1960

Hayat Acıları poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayat Acıları

1951

Hayat Acıları poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayat Acıları

1951

The Broken Lifes poster
6.7

Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the same time troubles are started.

The Broken Lifes

1965

The Handsome poster
5.5

Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.

The Handsome

1987