Yılmaz Güney

Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director scenarist novelist and actor He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary working class people in Turkey Güney won the Palme dOr with the film Yol he coproduced with Şerif Gören at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because of his portrayals of Kurdish culture people and language in his movies