Suha Arın


Mustafa Suha Arın was a Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator.
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Biography

He was born in Balikesir, Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. In 1965, he went to USA to receive his license degree on film directing from Howard University and his master's degree on mass communication from the American University. He also worked as a translating speaker and interviewer at the Voice of America Radio, and as the Washington DC reporter of Turkish Radio and Television. He returned to Turkey in 1974.
In his productive career lasting for 40 years, Suha Arın produced about 50 documentary films, many of which won national and international awards. Arın, who revealed the traditional and contemporary values of Turkey and Anatolian cultures in his films, also had an educator identity. He lectured at many universities over forty years and contributed to the education of many film-makers and academicians. He died at age 62 in Istanbul due to chronic heart failure.
Today, Suha Arın is commonly recognized as the grand old master of the Turkish documentary cinema, not only by his films but also by his unique approach to the education of documentary film-making.
On February 1, 2004, he died in Istanbul at Haseki Cardiology Institute where he was being treated.

Filmography

The Ten Colours of Asia Minor - A Film Production Guide to Turkey A Statue of Liberty in Cyprus The Photographs of Denktas Istanbul the Golden City Ayasofia Topkapi Palace Re-evaluation of Sinan Through Huseyin Anka The Memoirs of Sinan the Architect Until Eternity The Ballad of the Wood The Bounty of Erciyes Poets and Houses When the Fog Dispelled As Euphrates Becomes a Lake The Sweat of Glass The Story of Houses in Anatolia Chora Three Days in Kula The Oil Road of Anatoila Dolmabahce Palace and Atatürk Cemal Resit Rey Ali Izzet Ozkan Forty Thousand Steps in the Covered Bazaar Fatma of the Forest The Eternal Flame of Lycia Life Drops of Istanbul Two Seasons of Urartu Safranbolu: Reflections of Time The World of Midas Turned Out of Their Nest Wells of Worry After the Amnesty Silent Toil From Hattians to Hittites Pride Capital Ankara
  • ''Road Safety''

Awards