Şerif Gören [SEP] occupation
Şerif Gören
Şerif Gören (, born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important movies 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 Sefa Mutlu.
Gören started his film career as an editor, and then continued as
Yol
Yol (; translated as "The Way", "The Road" or "The Path") is a 1982 Turkish film directed by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney. The screenplay was written by Yılmaz Güney, and it was directed by his assistant Şerif Gören, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, when Güney escaped from prison, he took the negatives of the film to Switzerland and later edited it in Paris.
The film is a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish