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Zülfü Livaneli is a Director, Scriptwriter and Sound Turquee born on 20 june 1946 at Ilgın (Turquie)
Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 1946) is a best-selling Turkish author and composer who has been highly popular for decades. He is also a prominent social-democrat politician and was a member of the Turkish parliament for one term.
He is most known for his best-selling novels such as "Bliss" which won Barnes & Nobel's "Discovery of Great New Writers" award in 2003, and his critically acclaimed "Serenade for Nadia", "Leyla's House", and "My Brother's Story", which were all translated into 37 languages and won numerous Turkish and International literary awards, and were highly praised by prominent literary critics around the world. Livaneli's novels have been turned into theatrical movies, stage plays, and operas.
Livaneli is also known for his contemporary music, in much the same way as Bob Dylan and his contemporaries in the United States were in the 60's. His 1997 Ankara concert was attended by no less than 500 thousand people. His collaborations with Mikis Theodorakis of Greece have been noted as a gesture of bringing together the two countries. Livaneli has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1996.
Livaneli has composed some three hundred songs, a rhapsody –recorded by London Symphony Orchestra–, and a ballet. His compositions have reached cult status nationwide and have been performed by internationally renowned artists such as Joan Baez, Maria Farantouri, María del Mar Bonet, Udo Lindenberg, Haris Alexiou, Jocelyn B. Smith, and Kate Westbrook. He has also written five plays and thirty film soundtracks. Among these soundtracks are the soundtrack for "Yol" (The Path), directed by Yilmaz Güney and winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival, "The Herd", directed by Yılmaz Güney and Zeki Ökten, and "Shirin's Wedding" by German director Helma Sanders-Brahms. His recordings have been published in the USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland and France, and he has given dozens of concerts throughout the world. He has produced albums and performed with Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri, and he has also collaborated with Manos Hatzidakis, Giora Feidman, Inti-Illimani and Ángel Parra. In 2010, he sang 'Mothers of The Disappeared' with Bono at U2's concert in Istanbul, Turkey, which was U2's first-ever concert in Istanbul. Livaneli has been distinguished with the awards Best Album of the Year (Greece), the Edison Award (Holland), and Best Album of the Year (Music Critics Guild of Germany), and the "Premio Luigi Tenco" Best Songwriter Award, San Remo, Italy, in 1999, among others.
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He is most known for his best-selling novels such as "Bliss" which won Barnes & Nobel's "Discovery of Great New Writers" award in 2003, and his critically acclaimed "Serenade for Nadia", "Leyla's House", and "My Brother's Story", which were all translated into 37 languages and won numerous Turkish and International literary awards, and were highly praised by prominent literary critics around the world. Livaneli's novels have been turned into theatrical movies, stage plays, and operas.
Livaneli is also known for his contemporary music, in much the same way as Bob Dylan and his contemporaries in the United States were in the 60's. His 1997 Ankara concert was attended by no less than 500 thousand people. His collaborations with Mikis Theodorakis of Greece have been noted as a gesture of bringing together the two countries. Livaneli has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1996.
Livaneli has composed some three hundred songs, a rhapsody –recorded by London Symphony Orchestra–, and a ballet. His compositions have reached cult status nationwide and have been performed by internationally renowned artists such as Joan Baez, Maria Farantouri, María del Mar Bonet, Udo Lindenberg, Haris Alexiou, Jocelyn B. Smith, and Kate Westbrook. He has also written five plays and thirty film soundtracks. Among these soundtracks are the soundtrack for "Yol" (The Path), directed by Yilmaz Güney and winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival, "The Herd", directed by Yılmaz Güney and Zeki Ökten, and "Shirin's Wedding" by German director Helma Sanders-Brahms. His recordings have been published in the USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland and France, and he has given dozens of concerts throughout the world. He has produced albums and performed with Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri, and he has also collaborated with Manos Hatzidakis, Giora Feidman, Inti-Illimani and Ángel Parra. In 2010, he sang 'Mothers of The Disappeared' with Bono at U2's concert in Istanbul, Turkey, which was U2's first-ever concert in Istanbul. Livaneli has been distinguished with the awards Best Album of the Year (Greece), the Edison Award (Holland), and Best Album of the Year (Music Critics Guild of Germany), and the "Premio Luigi Tenco" Best Songwriter Award, San Remo, Italy, in 1999, among others.
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Veda - Atatürk (2010)
Directed by Zülfü Livaneli
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Sinan Tuzcu, Dolunay Soysert, Özge Özpirinçci, Ezgi Mola, Serhat Kılıç
Rating71%
Veda Atatürk raconte l'histoire de l'amitié unique entre Atatürk et Salih Bozok...
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Veda - Atatürk (2010)
Directed by Zülfü Livaneli
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Sinan Tuzcu, Dolunay Soysert, Özge Özpirinçci, Ezgi Mola, Serhat Kılıç
Rating71%
Veda Atatürk raconte l'histoire de l'amitié unique entre Atatürk et Salih Bozok...
Bliss (2007)
Genres Drama
Actors Özgü Namal, Murat Han, Meral Çetinkaya
Roles Novel
Rating74%
Meryem (Özgü Namal), a young woman of about 17 years old, is believed to have been violated, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. A young, newly returned war veteran and son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he doesn't allow himself to complete the task and the two, now unable to ever return to their village, run away together. Eventually, they meet up with ex-Professor Irfan, a man who has decided to live on a boat away from his wife and constricted life. In the end the real truth comes out and there is a surprise ending.
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Veda - Atatürk (2010)
Directed by Zülfü Livaneli
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Sinan Tuzcu, Dolunay Soysert, Özge Özpirinçci, Ezgi Mola, Serhat Kılıç
Rating71%
Veda Atatürk raconte l'histoire de l'amitié unique entre Atatürk et Salih Bozok...
Bliss (2007)
Genres Drama
Actors Özgü Namal, Murat Han, Meral Çetinkaya
Roles Music
Rating74%
Meryem (Özgü Namal), a young woman of about 17 years old, is believed to have been violated, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. A young, newly returned war veteran and son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he doesn't allow himself to complete the task and the two, now unable to ever return to their village, run away together. Eventually, they meet up with ex-Professor Irfan, a man who has decided to live on a boat away from his wife and constricted life. In the end the real truth comes out and there is a surprise ending.
The Road (1982)
, 1h49Directed by Yılmaz Güney, Şerif Gören
Origin Turquie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Tarık Akan, Halil Ergün, Şerif Sezer
Roles Music
Rating79%
Yol tells the story of several prisoners on furlough in Turkey. Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan) travels to his house and finds that his wife (Şerif Sezer) has betrayed him and works as a prostitute. She was caught by her family and held captive for Seyit Ali to end her life in an honor killing. Though apparently determined at first, he changes his mind when his wife starts to freeze while travelling in the snow. Despite his efforts to keep her alive, he eventually fails. His wife's death relieves Seyit Ali from family pressure and he is saved from justice since she freezes but he has an internal struggle and must return to jail.
The Herd (1979)
, 2h9Directed by Yılmaz Güney, Zeki Ökten
Origin Turquie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about families
Actors Tarık Akan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Yaman Okay
Rating81%
Affrontement entre deux familles de nomades malgré les efforts de chacun pour calmer cette haine ancestrale.
The Mine (1978)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Cüneyt Arkın, Tarık Akan, Halil Ergün, Hale Soygazi, İhsan Yüce
Roles Music
Rating74%