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Filmmaker · Turkey (Türkiye)

Süreyya Duru

Died in 1988

Süreyya Duru was born in 1930 in Samsun. The son of the producer Naci Duru, founder of Duru Film, he began at his father's company as a production manager in the mid-fifties, then directed his first film in 1961. He went on to make dozens of films, including popular successes, and from 1974 turned to social subjects, according to biyografiler.com. He died in Istanbul on 21 February 1988, of a heart attack that occurred during a shoot, according to an online biographical entry.

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