Şerif Gören is a Turkish

Turkish people

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 film director

Film director

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. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

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 ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival

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 in 1982 for the film Yol

Yol

Yol is a 1982 Yılmaz Güney film. The screenplay was written by Yılmaz Güney, and it was directed by his assistant Şerif Gören, who strictly followed Güney's instructions, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, when Güney escaped from prison, he took the negatives of the film and edited it in...

, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney

Yilmaz Güney

Yılmaz Güney, was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey.- Biography :...

, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder of Yumurtalık

Yumurtalik

Yumurtalık is a small city and a district in Adana Province of Turkey. It is a Mediterranean port at a distance of about from Adana center. Yumurtalık's population does not exceed 5,000 in winter, but in summer, it rises to 30 to 40,000 people since many inhabitants of Adana have holiday homes here...

 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.

Filmography

• Umut
  Umut
  Hope is a 1970 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören, featuring Güney as an illiterate horse cab driver, who, after losing one of his horses in an accident, sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure...
  
  (1970) (co-director for Yılmaz Güney)
• Endişe "The Anxiety" (1974)
• Köprü "The Bridge" (1975)
• Deprem "The Earthquake" (1976)
• İki Arkadaş "Two Friends" (1976)
• Taksi Şoförü "Taxi Driver" (1976/I)
• İstasyon (1977)
• Nehir "The River" (1977)
• Derdim Dünyadan Büyük (1978)
• Gelincik (1978)
• Almanya, Acı Vatan (1979)
• Aşkı Ben mi Yarattım? (1979)
• Kır Gönlünün Zincirini (1980)
• Feryada Gücüm Yok (1981)
• Herhangi Bir Kadın (1981)
• Yılanı Öldürseler (1981)
• Yol
  Yol
  Yol is a 1982 Yılmaz Güney film. The screenplay was written by Yılmaz Güney, and it was directed by his assistant Şerif Gören, who strictly followed Güney's instructions, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, when Güney escaped from prison, he took the negatives of the film and edited it in...
  
  (1982) (on behalf of Yılmaz Güney)
• Alişan (1982)
• Tomruk (1982)
• Derman (1983)
• Güneşin Tutulduğu Gün (1983)
• Firar "The Escape" (1984)
• Güneş Doğarken "While The Sun Rises" (1984)
• Kurbağalar "The Frogs" (1985)
• Adem İle Havva "Adam and Eve" (1986)
• Kan "The Blood" (1986)
• On Kadın "Ten Women" (1987)
• Polizei (1988, Germany
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• Abuk Sabuk Bir Film (1990)
• Amerikalı "The American" (1993)
• Kırık Ayna (2002) (mini) TV Series
• Serseri Aşıklar (2003) (mini) TV Series

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