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Filmmaker · Turkey (Türkiye)

Bilge Olgaç

Died in 1994

Bilge Olgaç was born on 10 January 1940 in Vize, in the province of Kırklareli. An assistant to the filmmaker Memduh Ün, after he had brought one of her short stories to the screen, she directed her first film in 1965, at first adventure films, and made nearly forty. Refusing erotic films, she made commercials from 1975 to 1984, then returned to cinema. She died on 3 March 1994 in the fire of her apartment in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.

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