Desc: Atatürk: Visionär - Revolutionär - Reformer: Directed by Monika Czernin. With Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Klaus Kreiser, Zeynep Bozbay, Mercedes Echerer. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.