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Filmmaker · Turkey (Türkiye)

Aydın Arakon

Died in 1982

Mehmet Aydın Arakon was born on 22 May 1918 in Edirne. After attending Işık lycée, he began studying architecture and then law at Istanbul University, which he abandoned; as a schoolboy he was already writing short stories. He entered cinema as a screenwriter in the late forties and directed his first film in 1949. He directed twenty-eight films up to 1970 and wrote some thirty screenplays, according to biyografiler.com. His brother İlhan was also a cinematographer and director. He died in Istanbul on 11 August 1982.

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