Writing
Yaşar Kemal
Born 1923-10-06 · Hemite, Osmaniye, Türkiye
Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli;(6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist of Kurdish origin. He was one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of Memed, My Hawk. An outspoken intellectual, he often did not hesitate to speak about sensitive issues, especially those concerning the plight of the Kurdish people.He was tried in 1995 under anti-terror laws for an article he wrote for German magazine Der Spiegel accusing the Turkish army of destroying Kurdish villages. He was released but later received a suspended 20-month jail sentence for an article he wrote criticising racism against minorities in Turkey, especially the Kurds.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.2In this deeply symbolic and visually lush film, as far as Tashbash is concerned, he's just a malcontent, a fairly ordinary hell-raiser who has gotten into trouble with the law in the past. Sure, he hates the village headman who is a toady to the region's oppressive landlord, and he dislikes the fact that everyone looks to the headman for help because they have no place else to turn, but he's just an ordinary guy and has no solutions for his fellow villagers. However, after one of them has a vision in which Tashbash is shown to be a manifestation of one of their more important local saints, the villagers unite as one in seeking him out for help with the upcoming visit of the landlord to collect rents which they can't pay. Their adulation and reverence is so persistent that eventually even Tashbash becomes a believer.
Iron Earth, Copper Sky
1987
7.1Halil is a man who is passionate about deer hunting.
Ala Geyik
1969
10.0The film deals with the bleeding wound of smuggling in the Southeast.
Ölüm Tarlası
1966
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Dağları Delen Ferhat
1959
7.0Murat and Meliha are two young people who love each other. Murat is a poor villager who hunts for a living, while Meliha is the daughter of a landlord. Zülfikar Ağa knows about their relationship and strongly opposes it. The villagers also want Murat and Meliha to marry. They even try to persuade the landlord. However, the landlord has no intention of agreeing. Out of pride, he resorts to every means possible. But he achieves no result.
Murad'ın Türküsü
1965