Şerif Gören

Şerif Gören

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1944-10-14

  • Day of Death

    2024-12-08 (80 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Xanthi, Greece

Biography

Şerif Gören (born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder of Yumurtalık judge Safa Mutlu. Gören started his film career as an editor, and then continued as an assistant director. He directed his first film "Endişe" (The Anxiety) in 1974. He directed more than thirty films in a decade.

Acting

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