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Filmmaker · Turkey (Türkiye)

Atıf Yılmaz

Died in 2006

Atıf Yılmaz was born in Mersin in December 1925, on the 9th (on the 25th according to the Küre). He gave up law at Istanbul University for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, wrote on cinema and wrote screenplays, then directed his first film in 1951. He signed about one hundred and twenty films and produced several dozen; in the eighties, he devoted a series of films to female characters, according to the Küre. He died in Istanbul on 5 May 2006.

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