Serif Goren Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor

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Amerikali

Crew: Director

1993
Polizei

Crew: Director

Actors: Kemal Sunal

Synopsis: In love with a waitress whom he sees often on his street-cleaning route, a shy city worker at first tries to get a friend of his to plead his case with the girl. Instead, his friend decides to try and take the girl for himself. While performing in a community play as a policeman, our street Read More

1989
Yilanlarin Ocu

Crew: Director

1986
Kan

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Tarik Akan, Hakan Balamir, Serpil Cakmakli, Necmettin Cobanoglu

Synopsis: Barbarism rides again in this shoddy Turkish Western where a blood feud is about to eliminate entire families. The fighting starts when one tribal leader rides in to visit a rival clan and while there, he is mortally offended when they cut off his horse's tail. His reaction, apparently inspired Read More

1986
Kurbagalar

Crew: Director

Actors: Hulya Kocyigit, Talat Bulut, Yavuzer Cetinkaya, Yaman Okay, Hikmet Celik

Synopsis: In this well-photographed drama from director Serif Goren, a young Turkish widow (Hulya Kocyigit) lives near the Greek border and goes to work in the rice fields after her husband is murdered. She tries to make a living for herself and her young son, ignoring the male workers who obviously lust Read More

1986
Sen Turkulerini Soyle

Crew: Director

1986
Umut Sokagi

Crew: Director

1986
Firar

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Hulya Kocyigit, Talat Bulut

Synopsis: This standard story of a woman's ill-fated existence starts when she stabs her loser, common-law husband to death after she discovers he has been married to another woman all along. Ayse (Hulya Koxyigit) gets thrown in jail for her crime, but following the maxim that a prisoner's first duty is to Read More

1985
Almanya Aci Vatan

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Hulya Kocyigit

Synopsis: The focus of this well-wrought drama by Serif Goren, filmed in 1980, is the plight of the impoverished immigrant, jinxed with economic hardships that are difficult to overcome because of cultural and language barriers, and routinely facing widespread discrimination. As shown in the opening scenes Read More

1985
Derman

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Hulya Kocyigit, Tarik Akan, Talat Bulut, Nur Surer

Synopsis: In an uneven but visually evocative drama, Turkish director Serif Goren captures the story of Muruvvet (Hulya Kocyigit), a midwife who is traveling from the city of Ankara to work at a medical center in a remote town. The season is winter, and when her bus is trapped by accumulating snow, she is Read More

1984
Yol

Crew: Director

Actors: Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergun, Meral Orhonsay, Necmettin Cobanoglu

Synopsis: The notoriously brutal Turkish prison system undergoes a rare moment of compassion in Yol. Five convicts are given a week's leave from jail so that they may visit their friends, families and lovers. Sadly, each of the men is confronted with tragedy, disillusionment or both upon arriving home. Read More

1982
Umut

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yilmaz Güney, Tuncel Kurtiz, Sema Engin

Synopsis: In this bleak tragedy, a crude and illiterate man who drives a horse-drawn taxi survives his meager existence by hoping each day that this will be the day he wins the lottery. One day his coach is hit by a car, killing one of his two horses and damaging the buggy. Because the automobile driver has Read More

1970