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Aliye Rona

Aliye Rona

Actor · 1921 – 1996

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Birth date1921
BirthplaceDaraa
DiedAugust 27, 1996
ProfessionActor

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Aliye Rona — Biography

Born Aliye Dilligil in 1921 in the town of Dera, now inside Syria, Aliye Rona was the daughter of a railway operator from Trabzon and the sister of theatre figure Avni Dilligil and journalist Turhan Dilligil. After studying at a girls' vocational art school in Beyoğlu, she took up amateur acting at the Kadıköy people's house in the late 1930s and later performed at the Arena Theatre alongside Ulvi Uraz and her brother. She married fellow actor Zihni Rona, whom she met while working together at İzmir City Theatre. She moved into cinema in 1947 with Kerim'in Çilesi and, over a career spanning nearly five decades, appeared in more than two hundred productions while also doing voice work. She became known for playing stubborn, rights-seeking, tradition-bound peasant women and authoritative mother and grandmother figures, in films including Revenge of the Snakes, Cemo, Şabaniye and Berlin in Berlin. She won Best Supporting Actress at the Antalya Golden Orange festival in 1965, 1967 and 1968 for three different films, took the same award at Adana's Golden Boll festival in 1969, and received a Lifetime Achievement award there in 1994. In her final years she suffered paralysis on her right side, used a wheelchair, and lived in a nursing home in Pendik, whose conditions drew press coverage at the time. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1996 and was buried in the family plot at Karacaahmet Cemetery.

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Memo's mother in Cemo, Davut's mother in Yürek Yarası: in both films Aliye Rona plays the older generation standing behind a young couple's love and giving the story weight. In classic Yeşilçam melodrama the mother's part often does just that, and Cemo, an Atıf Yılmaz film from a Kemal Bilbaşar novel with a historical atmosphere, makes the part worth more. This is the place to look first.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In Gazeteci she plays a part billed simply as "Anne" (Mother), in Kılıç Bey the mother of its hero: Aliye Rona is often given a figure who does not carry the story but is attached to it. In my view such roles, however carefully played, narrow her range in films where the script gives the mother one job. In Kemal Sunal comedies like Keriz and Şabaniye she is the same dependable face; that is repetition, not a new direction.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Aliye Rona's roles stand for the older generation of a family trying to hold its ground against land and power. The mother of the family whose property passes to landowners in Kılıç Bey is the clearest case; Cemo gives the generation behind a village love story, and Kuruluş/Osmancık gives Gökçe Bacı. Her years in this type show both the respect and the limit of the place Turkish cinema gave the rural woman.

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