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PARIS - French cinema authorities are deeply saddened by demise of famous Turkish film director Atif Yilmaz.
Executives of Cinema Odyssee, located in Strasbourg, released a statement on Saturday, underlining that Yilmaz was also a well-known director in France.
It noted that Yilmaz's movies always fascinated French movie fans, adding that his demise was also a great loss to French people.
During his career, Yilmaz directed more than 100 films and was a major influence and help to several other well-known directors in Turkish cinema, such as Zeki Okten, Yylmaz Guney, Serif Goren, Ali Ozgenturk, and Halit Refig.
Yilmaz was born in 1926 in the southern Turkish city of Mersin. He later attended Istanbul University School of Law and also studied drawing at the Fine Arts Academy.