Yusuf Kurçenli was not one of those high-profile filmmakers who would make comments here and there, and you wouldn’t see him at many a film festival where you bump into a celebrity at every turn. Yet Kurçenli was a person that long deserved the lifetime achievement award given to him at last year’s Istanbul International Film Festival by probably the most celebrated actress in Turkish cinematic history, Türkan Şoray.
His death last week, at 65, made the news, but it was not one of those highly publicized celebrity deaths crying for headlines from every media outlet. His funeral, however, brought together veteran actors, rising stars and renowned filmmakers while Turkey’s culture minister carried his coffin – a traditional gesture expected from male relatives and those close to the deceased.
With a career that included both television and movies, Kurçenli directed around two dozen films and TV shows, wrote about half of them, and produced one movie, the multiple award-winner Çözülmeler (Disengagements). He touched every subject that tormented Turkey’s recent history from the challenges of being a woman in Turkey to Turkish workers in Germany, as well as censorship.
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