Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish director and screenwriter (born 1916)

Lütfi Ömer Akad

Turkish film director

Lütfi Ömer Akad was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and academic, who directed movies from 1948 to 1990. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edib Adıvar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in…