Ertem Göreç

He was born in Bursa in 1931. He left his secondary education and started to do sports and became a national basketball player. He started editing for the cinema next to Orhan Atadeniz. He continued in this business for 10 years and increased his technical knowledge to edit many films. In the 1950s, he became an assistant to Orhan M. Ariburnu and later to Atif Yilmaz, Abdurrahman Palay and Memduh Ün. He worked as assistant director for important films of the period such as "Surgun (Exile)", "Lejyon Dönüsü (Legion Return)", "Üç Arkadas (Three Friends)" and "Atesten Damla (Fire Drop)". Memduh Ün joined a field of study. He started directing in 1960 with the movie "Kanli Sevda". He made his debut with "Otobüs Yolculari (Bus Passengers)". In 1964, he shot three films "Karanlikta Uyananlar (Awakening in the Dark)". Written by Vedat Türkali, the film was about the "awareness" and "struggle" of the workers working in a paint factory. Turkish cinema is considered to be the first film to deal with laborers. He made social realistic films from the 60s. In the face of the crisis economy of the 1980s, it has been criticized for using cheap ordinary movies. In 1987, he shot the TV series "Önce Canan". Continuing to make films until the 1980s, Ertem Goreç wrote most of his films himself. He passed away on March 12, 2021 due to a heart attack.