Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1920-03-14
Day of Death
2015-10-16
Place of Birth
Kasımpaşa, İstanbul, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
Memduh Ün
Biography
Turkish football player, film director, actor, editor, screenwriter, producer, lecturer and Honorary Professor. He graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1937. In 1938, he dropped out of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in the third year of his education. Ün changed the language of cinema by going beyond the melodrama mould with the film Üc Arkadas in 1958. The film was considered one of the best films of Turkish cinema. Thanks to his success in this film, he was invited to the Film Friends Association and became one of the important directors of Turkish cinema. During this period, he started to live with Fatma Girik and the couple's relationship continued for life. In 1960, he started the era of child stars in Turkish cinema history with the film Aysecik. After his success with Aysecik, his partnership with Arsavir Alyanak at Yakut Film ended and he founded Ugur Film. In 1990, he made his first self-financed film, Tüm Kapilar Kapaliydi, in which he turned to a subject and cinematography not seen in his previous films. This was followed by the films Gün Ortasinda Karanlik and Zikkimin Kökü, which received many awards. The last film he directed was Sinema Bir Mucizedir (2005), but due to his illness he could not complete the film and handed it over to Tunc Basaran. He worked as a lecturer at Mimar Sinan University Cinema-TV Department. Film worker Memduh Ün died on 16 October 2015 at the age of 95 in Bodrum where he was being treated. IMDb mini bio by; yusufpiskin
Filmography (58)
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
2019
We Hit The Road
2014
İzzet Günay Belgeseli
2008
Sinema Bir Mucizedir
2005
Whistle If You Come Back
1993
Walking After Midnight
1992
Gün Ortasında Karanlık
1990
Polis Dosyası
1989
Poor
1986
Vazife Uğruna
1986
Paranın Esiri
1985
Kahreden Gençlik
1985
Şaban, a Man from the Middle Class
1984
Unmade Bed
1984
