Halit Refiğ

Senaryo Yazarı, Yönetmen, Yazar

Doğum
05 Mart, 1934
Ölüm
11 Ekim, 2009
Eğitim
Şişli Terakki High School
Burç

Movie director and writer (b. 1934, İzmir - d. 11 October 2009, İstanbul). He graduated from Şişli Terakki High School. He gave up his engineering studies at Robert College (1953) and worked in cinema in London. He made a documentary film while he was doing his military service in Korea. Beginning in 1956, he started to write about cinema in reviews such as Akis, Kim and Yön. He published his critiques in the newspapers Yeni Sabah, Akşam and Milliyet. He published the review Sinema in collaboration with Nejat Özon. He started in the movie business as the assistant of the famous director, Atıf Yılmaz (1957). He also wrote scenarios.

He started his directing career with the movie Yasak Aşk (Forbidden Love, 1960). He was one of the famous personalities of movie making, not just with his movies but also with his writing and views. After such movies as Şehirdeki Yabancı (Stranger in the City, 1963) and Gurbet Kuşları (Birds of Exile, 1964), which are the results of his social realistic period, he tried to maintain the concept of national cinema. He explained his ideas about the concept of “National Cinema” in his book named Ulusal Sinema Kavgası (The Struggle for the National Cinema, 1971) in which he stressed the main characteristics of Turkish society that differ from the European. He became known for his TV series, namely Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) and won the Turkish Writers Association Award with the movie İhtiras Fırtınas (Storm of Passion) in 1983.

The friendship and works of Kemal Tahir greatly influenced his intellectual development. Of the scenarios he wrote with Kemal Tahir, only the movie Haremde Dört Kadın (Four Women in the Harem) could be produced. All the audio and visual material of his TV series Yorgun Savaşçı (Tired Warrior) was destroyed by the order of the Prime Ministry in 1983, however a full video recording of the same movie appeared again on the Turkish Radio Television Corporation in 1993. He produced a movie from the novel Karılar Koğuşu (The Women’s Ward) by Kemal Tahir in 1990 that told of the author’s time spent in Malatya prison. He was among the instigators of cinema and television education at graduate level within the framework of İstanbul Academy of Fine Arts in 1974-75. He produced the movie “Intercessors” at the University of Wisconsin and “The Wilderness” at Ohio Denison University in the US. He has given lectures at Mimar Sinan University continuously since 1977. His essays, of which there are more than 300, have been published in Turkey and abroad. Among more than 60 movies he has produced, those which have won various awards, have been shown at festivals and performances in America, Asia, Europe and other African countries representing Turkey are: Bir Türk’e Gönül Verdim (I Lost My Heart to a Turk, 1969), Teyzem (My Aunt, 1986), Kurtar Beni (Save Me, 1988), Hanım (Lady, 1989), İki Yabancı (Two Strangers, 1991), Köpekler Adası (Island of Dogs, 1996).

WORKS:

Ulusal Sinema Kavgası (The Struggle for National Cinema, 1971), Gerçeğin Değişkenliği – Kemal Tahir (Variability of the Truth - Kemal Tahir, 2000), Doğu, Batı ve Türkiye – 10 Yılda Nereden Başladık Nereye Geldik (East, West and Turkey – Where Did We Start and Where Have We Come to in 10 years? 2002). 

REFERENCE: Mahmut Çetin / İslam Sanatının Yeniden Teşekkülü (s.122/125, 1991), Düşlerden Düşüncelere (Haz: İbrahim Türk (Söyleşi - 2001), Prof. Dr. Kurtuluş Kayalı / Güncel Sorunlar Karşısında Belirgin Yaklaşımlar: Halit Refiğ ve Yılmaz Güney (‘Yönetmenler Çerçevesinde Türk Sineması’ kitabı içinde, 2006), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006), Halit Refiğ Özel Sayısı (Altyazı dergisi, 9 Aralık 2009), İbrahim Türk / Halit Refiğ - Düşlerden Düşüncelere Söyleşiler (2001), Mesut Kara / Yeşilçam Hatırası (2007), Türkiye Kültür ve Sanat 2010 Yıllığı (2010), İhsan Işık / Ünlü Sanatçılar (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 5, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013).

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