1 year has passed since the death of Tunç Başaran

It has been a year since Tunç Başaran, the director of unforgettable films such as "Don't Shoot the Kite" and "Piano Piano No Legs", passed away. Tunç Başaran was born on October 1, 1938 in Istanbul. His childhood and youth passed in the Fatih district of Istanbul. He tells that the place that changed his life was Şehzadebaşı, formerly known as Direklerarası; because there are seven or eight cinemas. From the age of six, he gets involved in movies playing in theaters. With his beloved friend, writer Islam Çupi, they sit on the bars of the Air Martyrs Park opposite the Fatih District Governorship and discuss the films they watched. It was Chupi who nicknamed him John Ford. When he was 17, he ran away from home. His aim is to get on a freighter and go to America. He will be a filmmaker and for some reason he will see Charlton Heston. It is caught in Adapazarı. While studying at the Faculty of Letters, he meets the director Memduh Ün. After reading a script he wrote, Ün offers him an assistant. He works with Rep for four years. "I learned what I learned from him," says Başaran. Meanwhile, he worked as an assistant along with famous directors such as Lütfi Akad, Halit Refiğ, Atıf Yılmaz and Ertem Gore. In 1964, in his first film, he worked with Orhan Kemal, who turned the play "Blowing His Pipe" into a script. Then he filmed "Black Memet" and Orhan Kemal's "Guardian Murtaza". He enlisted in 1966. He does not break away from the cinema, he wants to make a movie about the life of Adnan Menderes, whom he finds very tragic, and begins research. He returns to the sets again after his military service. The master name Tunç Başaran, who has accomplished many successful jobs, died at the age of 81 in the hospital where he was treated for cancer in 2019.