Halit Refiğ

Halit Refiğ was born in İzmir on 5 March 1934. After studying engineering at Robert College, he shot his first films on 8 mm during his service as a reserve officer in Korea, then from 1956 wrote film criticism. He made his first feature at the very beginning of the sixties and became the leading figure of the so-called national cinema movement. He worked for public television in the seventies, taught in Istanbul and in the United States, and died in Istanbul on 11 October 2009.

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• CinemaGurbet KuşlarıHalit Refiğ · 1964Cinema