Duygu Sağıroğlu

Biography

Duygu Sağıroğlu (November 10, 1932, Trabzon - April 29, 2023, Istanbul) was a Turkish screenwriter , film director , theater set designer, art director and lecturer.He started making sets at Küçük Sahne during his high school education. His nickname in high school was Deli Mıgır. After Galatasaray High School , he studied at Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. In 1956, he started working as a set designer and graphic designer at Küçük Sahne . He designed sets in theater for a long time. He was among the founders of the Theater Association and Cep Theater . He worked on designing theater sets in America, where he went with a Rockefeller scholarship. When he returned to Turkey, he designed opera sets. He started working in the field of cinema as an assistant in the film " Karacaoğlanın Kara Sevdası " directed by Atıf Yılmaz in 1959. During this period, he worked as a set designer, art director and assistant director in many films.