Memduh Ün
Date of birth: 1920-03-14
Place of birth: Kasımpaşa, İstanbul, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Turhan Ün, Arif 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
Movie Credits
Vagabond
1967-12-17
Kazım earns his living by fishing and selling books on the street. The lonely life he has been leadi
Three Friends
1971-01-02
A blind panhandler girl as an idealist dreamer joins three cronies in a supper, after which the cron
İstanbul'un Kızları
1964-06-01
Farewell Kiss
1965-01-03
Ekrem who lost his wife on his wedding day, He meets a woman who looks like his dead wife. However,
Ayşecik Yavru Melek
1962-04-02
Ayşecik is a very charming girl who grew up without a mother in a wealthy family. Her father, who wa
Gülsüm Ana
1982-04-01
The struggle of a devoted mother for her children.
Paranın Esiri
1985-04-01
An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet and silent revenge from the ingenue with whom
Zehir Hafiye
1971-05-05
The film tells the story of Ali, a detective who tries to solve a murder committed by a blackmailer.
Unmade Bed
1984-01-02
Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love wit
Derdim Dünyadan Büyük
1978-04-10
Onu Ben Öldürdüm
1952-01-01
Aşk Istıraptır
1953-01-01
Yetim Yavrular
1955-01-01
Yaban Kız
1954-01-01
Günahkar Baba
1955-01-01
As Long as We Live
1969-08-15
Blinded because of Orhan, Ayse falls in love with Orhan, whose face she cannot see. However, Ayse's
Zeynebin Aşkı
1957-01-01
Yetim Ömer
1957-01-01
For Chastity
1960-01-01
A young taxi-driver tries to make his newly married wife happy and joyful. But the wife, seduced by
Şaban, a Man from the Middle Class
1984-03-01
Şaban, who works as a clerk in a factory, is madly in love with Bahar, who works as a secretary in t
Feryat
1973-01-01
Üç Korkusuz Arkadaş
1966-01-01
When Ayşe, a young woman from Anatolia, moves to Istanbul for work, she accidentally uncovers a weap
Erkek ve Dişi
1966-01-01
Police officer Burhan arrests Recep, a member of a drug trafficking gang. Recep is released after a
Walking After Midnight
1992-11-07
Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she
Çarıklı Milyoner
1983-01-01
Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate a
Whistle If You Come Back
1993-02-12
A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their l
Darbe
1976-01-01
The film tells the story of two old friends, Ahmet and Kemal, who work together to solve a murder. A
The Broken Lifes
1965-01-01
Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the sa
Mahallenin Sevgilisi
1960-11-30
Karadeniz Postası
1949-01-01
Sinema Bir Mucizedir
2005-10-21
A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying time
Aşk Hırsızı
1961-01-07
Zeki is a poor young man who struggles to care for his sick mother. He works constantly to buy his m
The Hopeless Ones
1971-06-22
A romance between Firat and Çigdem.
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
2019-04-17
Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to kee
Vazife Uğruna
1986-01-01
Tahsin is a respected police officer who lives a happy life with his wife and daughter Gamze. Despit
Gün Ortasında Karanlık
1990-03-01
The film tells the story of a mother who has lost her child. After losing her husband in a traffic a
İstanbul 79
1979-12-01
The life story of a family who migrated from a small town in Anatolia to Istanbul. Ömer from the fam
The Death Curtain
1960-01-01
The plot of Death Curtain is incredibly interesting. According to the film, communists are about to
Zübük
1980-09-11
This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he i
Murat ile Nazlı
1972-02-29
Sezercik Aslan Parçası
1972-11-01
Sedat, a famous factory owner, falls in love with Sevim, a worker in his factory, and marries her. H
Damga
1948-01-01
The story of Asuman, a rich girl who has had various romantic adventures but has never been able to
Akrep Yuvası
1977-04-01
The film is about a cop and a hitman meeting up. Kemal is a cop. He stops the mafia in Istanbul from
Windfall
1980-09-01
This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish
Delicesine
1976-01-01
Cemil Dönüyor
1978-12-01
The film tells the story of an idealistic police officer's struggle against smugglers. An internatio
Kahreden Gençlik
1985-01-01
Kemal is a successful journalist. He has a happy family with his wife Aynur and son Cengiz. Cengiz i
Polis Dosyası
1989-01-01
The film tells the story of two police officers' fight against a drug gang. Cemil is one of the succ
Hayat Acıları
1951-01-01
Ana Hasreti
1956-01-01
Bekçiler Kralı
1979-11-01
The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think
The Indestructible Man
1977-01-01
It tells the story of a child who lost his mother at a young age and struggled to get by with his fa
Ölüm Peşimizde
1960-12-30
Burhan works as a driver at the factory where his father works. He is also preparing to marry Zehra,
İzzet Günay Belgeseli
2008-01-01
Poor
1986-10-28
Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football.