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Filmmaker · Turkey (Türkiye)

Yücel Çakmaklı

Died in 2009

Yücel Çakmaklı was born in 1937 in Bolvadin, in the province of Afyonkarahisar. A graduate of the journalism institute of Istanbul University in 1959, he wrote about cinema, defended from 1964 the idea of a national cinema, was an assistant at the Erman Film studios and founded his company, Elif Film, in 1969. He directed his first feature film in 1970, worked from 1975 to 1990 for public television and died in Istanbul on 23 August 2009, according to Küre.

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