“Those who sing revolutionary songs when everything is quiet prefer to hide behind doors when things get difficult.” Yilmaz Guney.
“The critic J. Hoberman once described the Turkish filmmaker Yilmaz Guney as ‘something like Clint Eastwood, James Dean, and Che Guevara combined’, and for anyone familiar with the particulars of his career, it is sometimes astonishing that this roughneck-star-auteur ever actually existed.” Bilge Ebiri, Senses of Cinema, 2005
The great master Yilmaz Guney’s films on iTunes, Amazon InstantVideo, MUBI, IndieFlix and decide if Mr Hoberman was right. Enjoy!