# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/y-lmaz-guney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:58.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/y-lmaz-guney"
name: "Yılmaz Güney"
slug: "y-lmaz-guney"
description: "Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language."
tagline: "Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y%C4%B1lmaz_G%C3%BCney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-04-01"
deathDate: "1984-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.194252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0351566"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/145352"
    title: "Yılmaz Güney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump