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Memduh Ün
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.
As director
Sinema Bir Mucizedir
Loves with Gravity
Loves with Gravity: Tell Her That I Love Her
Zıkkımın Kökü
All Doors Were Closed
Gün Ortasında Karanlık
Poor
The Postman
Gülsüm Ana
Kaçak
Kanlı Nigar
Windfall
Cevriyem
Bir Tanem
The Executioner
The Legend of Mount Agrı
Kadınım
Gönülden Yaralılar
Para
Mother Earth
Murat ile Nazlı
Sezercik Aslan Parçası
Three Friends
Büyük Yemin
As Long as We Live
İlk ve Son
Vuruldum Bir Kıza
Falling Leaves
Aslan Yürekli Kabadayı
Son Gece
As actor
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
We Hit The Road
İzzet Günay Belgeseli
Sinema Bir Mucizedir
Whistle If You Come Back
Walking After Midnight
Gün Ortasında Karanlık
Polis Dosyası
Vazife Uğruna
Poor
Paranın Esiri
Kahreden Gençlik
Unmade Bed
Şaban, a Man from the Middle Class
Çarıklı Milyoner
Gülsüm Ana
Zübük
Windfall
İstanbul 79
King of The Guards
Derdim Dünyadan Büyük
Cemil Dönüyor
Cevriyem
Akrep Yuvası
The Indestructible Man
Darbe
Delicesine
Feryat
Murat ile Nazlı
Sezercik Aslan Parçası