Birthday:
03-22-1924
Deathday:
09-01-1998 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Istanbul, Turkey
Biography
Yönetmen, senarist, yapımcı ve oyuncudur.Avusturya Lisesi'nden mezun oldu.
İstanbul Üniversitesi'nde Hukuk eğitimi aldı. Yaşamı boyunca 100'ün üzerinde senaryo yazıp, film yönetti. Yönetmenliğini yaptığı filmlerde küçük rollerde yer aldı. Lütfi Akad'la senaryo çalışmaları yaptı. Birçok filmini çektiği Seden Film Şirketi'ni kurdu.
1951 yılında Kani Kıpçak`ın yönettiği "İstanbul Kan Ağlarken" adlı filmin yazarak sinemaya girdi. 1956`da ilk filmi Kanlarıyla Ödediler'i çekti. 1959`da çektiği "Düşman Yolları Kesti" adlı filmle Türk sinemasının önemli yönetmenleri arasına girdi. Bazı önemli filmleri Düşman Yolları Kesti (1959), Namus Uğruna (1960) ve Çalıkuşu'dur (1966). Genellikle duygusal filmler çekmesine rağmen ilk dönemlerinde Feridun Karakaya'nın unutulmaz tiplemesi Cilali İbo serisi gibi filmleri de yönettti. Sinema filmlerinin dışında son dönemlerde pek çok TV dizisinin yönetmenliğini yaptı.
Sanat yaşamı boyunca pek çok ödül kazanan yönetmene, Kültür Bakanlığı tarafından 1991 yılında Devlet Sanatçısı unvanı verildi. Prostat kanserinden dolayı 74 yaşında vefat etti. Aynı zamanda kendisi Adana Ceyhan kaymakamlığı yapmış olan Şeyh Ahmet Hamdi Efendinin torunudur.
İstanbul Üniversitesi'nde Hukuk eğitimi aldı. Yaşamı boyunca 100'ün üzerinde senaryo yazıp, film yönetti. Yönetmenliğini yaptığı filmlerde küçük rollerde yer aldı. Lütfi Akad'la senaryo çalışmaları yaptı. Birçok filmini çektiği Seden Film Şirketi'ni kurdu.
1951 yılında Kani Kıpçak`ın yönettiği "İstanbul Kan Ağlarken" adlı filmin yazarak sinemaya girdi. 1956`da ilk filmi Kanlarıyla Ödediler'i çekti. 1959`da çektiği "Düşman Yolları Kesti" adlı filmle Türk sinemasının önemli yönetmenleri arasına girdi. Bazı önemli filmleri Düşman Yolları Kesti (1959), Namus Uğruna (1960) ve Çalıkuşu'dur (1966). Genellikle duygusal filmler çekmesine rağmen ilk dönemlerinde Feridun Karakaya'nın unutulmaz tiplemesi Cilali İbo serisi gibi filmleri de yönettti. Sinema filmlerinin dışında son dönemlerde pek çok TV dizisinin yönetmenliğini yaptı.
Sanat yaşamı boyunca pek çok ödül kazanan yönetmene, Kültür Bakanlığı tarafından 1991 yılında Devlet Sanatçısı unvanı verildi. Prostat kanserinden dolayı 74 yaşında vefat etti. Aynı zamanda kendisi Adana Ceyhan kaymakamlığı yapmış olan Şeyh Ahmet Hamdi Efendinin torunudur.
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100 Numaralı Adam
Act like Patron
event1978 star_border 7.5
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A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buys.
Karanfilli Naciye
event1984 star_border 1
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The affair of a wealthy teenager and a prostitute.
Love of Giant
Act like Avni
event1976 star_border 6.4
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Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.
Yabancı
event1984
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Kadir, a retired gangster finds a troubled young woman on the road and takes her home for help. Soon they fall in love, but her past endangers their future.
Kahır
event1983 star_border 4
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Hayri Bey accuse an innocent young man for a murder committed by his son Metin. Hülya, the sister of the accused, is joined by Orhan in a fight for justice against the powerful Hayri Bey.
Futboliye
event1983 star_border 1.3
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The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.
İnsan Sevince
Act like Ferdi's Father
event1979
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Ferdi comes from a very wealthy family, but has a passion for music. His father sends Ferdi to Istanbul to take care of business matters and allows him to follow his musical dreams at the same time. While there, Ferdi meets Arzu, a passionate, hard-driven young music student, that sets the start of a bitter sweet and tumultuous love story.
Illicit
event1983 star_border 4.5
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It is the story of a worker girl who chooses to stay between two men as a result of unexpected events and eventually choose to escape with her truck driver lover.
Kaplanlar Ağlamaz
event1978
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The film tells the story of a gangster who declares war on the mafia. Canpolat is a gangster who works as a hit man. His brother is institutionalised for drug addiction. Canpolat takes action to hold accountable those who got his brother addicted to cannabis and trafficked him. However, he is injured before he can finish the mafia. When he is released from the hospital, he is thrown into prison. Adem, his old enemy, kidnaps him from the hospital and the police. His aim is to sell him to the mafia in exchange for money and to educate his daughter Hasret with this money. However, the course of events will change as some facts are revealed.
Yaban
event1973 star_border 5
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A rich girl is kidnapped by a man who lived alone in wild.
Zübük
Act like Meclis Başkanı
event1980 star_border 8.5
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This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.
The Stigma
event1984 star_border 5
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Tarik Akan plays a man who attempts to get revenge for the rape of his fiancee.
Beddua
Act like Ertugrul Bey
event1980 star_border 8
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Story of a famous singer from a small rural village, making it big in the city by following their passion.
Şeref Sözü
event1977
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Story of two brothers, struggling to build a life after losing their father in a young age.
Yuvanın Bekçileri
Act like Avni Bey
event1977
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A story of two men, fighting over their love for the same woman.
Firefly
event1975 star_border 6.9
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The road runner movie of two clever cheaters turns to a love story.
Meryem ve Oğulları
Director
event1977
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The struggle of a woman trying to save her children from the mafia.
Zehir Hafiye
Writer
event1989 star_border 5.7
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The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.
Bekçiler Kralı
Director
event1979 star_border 7.2
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The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.
My Neighbor's Chicken
Writer
event1965 star_border 6
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Türkan's lawyer suggests that the young woman make a fake marriage so that she can inherit her inheritance. Worried about taking the inheritance, Türkan tries to test the love of her ex-husband in this process.
Seven Kadın Unutmaz
Director
event1965 star_border 3.5
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Türkan, a young woman, works as a secretary in a bank. Kemal works alongside his wealthy uncle. There is a big secret that Kemal kept from Türkan.
The Wedding Night
Writer
event1966
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A woman trying to take revenge on her husband who left her.
A Handful of Soil
Producer
event1957
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The fight of poor Omer and rich Kerim, who want to marry the same woman.
Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır
Producer
event1970 star_border 6
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Turkan is tormented by thoughts of her turbulent family past that has been blighted by family rivalries and intrigues.
Badem Şekeri
Writer
event1963
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Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.
Last House in Istanbul
Director
event1974 star_border 5
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Three criminals on the run, breaking into the house of a wealthy doctor and his hot wife ...
Cilalı İbo Avrupa'da
Screenplay
event1970 star_border 2.5
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A Turkish Nazisploitation movie from 1970.
Tek Başına Bir Kadın
Writer
event1988
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A feud in the city instead of the village.
Akrep
Director
event1986
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Murat is a handsome tour guide. He takes a job on the mob leader Temel's boat. Temel's wife Sadiye fancies him, and Murat is also attracted to her beauty. They start an affair and meet in the boat when Temel is absent. For money laundering purposes, Temel transfers all his assets to Sadiye. However, Temel finds about Sadiye's affair with Murat. He assaults Sadiye and in return Sadiye wants to kill him. When Murat learns that Temel has hurt Sadiye, he kills Temel. Sadiye finds his gun and reports Murat to the police, as she is tired of him as well. Murat understands that he has been used by Sadiye in her dirty plot. He is very disappointed and Sadiye's life will turn into a nightmare.
You Can't Get Married With 100 Lira
Director
event1974 star_border 4.5
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Ediz and Bülent, who are close friends, work in an advertising firm. The life of the two takes a completely different turn when they meet two women named Ahu and Gülsen one day.
Rabia
Writer
event1973 star_border 7
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Based on the life of female Muslim saint Rabia Basri.
Herşey Oğlum İçin
Director
event1971
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Fikret and Sezer are a happy married couple. Erdal starts to work where Sezere works. Than events develop.
Yaralı Aslan
Producer
event1963
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The story of a brave young man fighting against a gang that raids a shipping company and prevents drivers from going on an expedition.
Gülüm, Dalım, Çiçeğim
Director
event1971 star_border 7
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Singer Saziye, who fell in love with Orhan, her university teacher, has not completely forgotten the young man, even though it has been years since she left Orhan. Saziye's path crosses with Orhan again.
The Revenge of the Angels
Writer
event1966
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A woman with three months of life remaining.
Gazi Kadın
Director
event1973
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With the start of the Russo-Turkish War, the Russian Army attacks Erzurum. Zeynep sets out to find her husband when there are rumors that her husband has been martyred. However, a big surprise awaits her there.
There is a Lion in Every Heart
Director
event1976 star_border 6.1
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A janitor, caretaker and the other two friends who, despite years of primary school, which is highly overage in order to get the story of their struggle
In the Name of the Law
Writer
event1952 star_border 5.8
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Deemed "the D.W. Griffith of Turkish Cinema," Omer Lutfi Akad directs this 1952 film based upon real events that took place in İstanbul, in the following years of World war II. It is about a love triangle that led to homicide. It was a stylistic departure of what otherwise had been typical of Turkish melodramas of the time.
They Paid with Their Blood
Producer
event1955
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Two brothers fall in love with the same girl and a rivalry develops between them.
The Broken Disk
Producer
event1959 star_border 8
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In this film, the famous singer/composer Zeki Müren plays himself. His flamboyant and luxurious life takes a tragic turn when he is poisoned, loses his voice and then gets framed for the killing that he doesn't actually carry out.
Bataklı Damın Kızı Aysel
Producer
event1969
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The second film adaptation of the legend of Aysel who, seduced by her boss, becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child.
The Wren
Screenplay
event1966 star_border 5.8
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Feride is a young girl who lost her family as a child and was educated in a French school. Because of her mischievousness and cheerfulness, she is nicknamed Wren by those around her. On the eve of marriage with the boy she loves, she thinks she is being deceived and runs away. Feride then begins to work as a teacher in various Anatolian cities. She will experience many difficulties during her travels.
For Chastity
Producer
event1960
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A young taxi-driver tries to make his newly married wife happy and joyful. But the wife, seduced by luxury and class, thinks otherwise and it leads to bad outcomes.
The Enemy Cut down the Ways
Producer
event1959
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Set in the period of the Turkish War of Independence, the film depicts the smuggling of arms and ammunition from Istanbul to Ankara.it is also an intelligent, brilliantly written multiple character study with rich psychological depth.
Hicran Gecesi
Director
event1968
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Three women love the same man. Providing a wealth of variation on the love-hate relationship, the tension between them climbs to a climax in their rivalry.
Sefiller
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 4
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Zafer Davutoglu's 1967 adaptation of Hugo's novel Les Misérables set in Turkey.
Urfa İstanbul
Screenplay
event1968
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Because of the huge heritage, some attempt to kill an innocent baby. Involved in the plot, Ayşe (Hülya Asan) flees with the child for safety and her path crosses that of a young man (Ahmet Mekin)...
Beşikteki Miras
Producer
event1969
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The sequel to the 1968 film Urfa-Istanbul. This time film depicts Ahmet and Ayse's adventure after their arrival in Istanbul.
Cilali Ibo the Texas Conqueror
Screenplay
event1971 star_border 3
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In 1959, a new comic actor, Feridun Karakaya starts a series with Cilali Ibo (Ibo, the Polished One) and becomes popular around the 1960s and 1970s. Cilalı ibo Teksas Fatihi (Cilali Ibo the Texas Conqueror) is a parody/pastiche of the Western genre, scripted by Osman F. Seden.
Külhan Aşkı
Producer
event1962
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Orhan (Orhan Günsiray) works as a minibus driver for living. One day he comes across Hacer (Evrim Fer) and they fall in love. Still Hacer's father has quite a different vision of his daughter's future...
The Bread Seller Woman
Producer
event1965 star_border 4
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Based on Xavier de Montépin's story, the film tells the story of a widow wrongly accused of arson.
The Invisible Man in Istanbul
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6
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H.G. Well’s popular creation gets a Turkish reworking in this fascinating account about a scientist who becomes the invisible man to track down his wife’s killer. Written by Vasillis ‘Bill’ Barounis
İngiliz Kemal Lawrens'e Karşı
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 4.5
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Plans to take over the task of the British spy who came to Istanbul to Anatolia by Kemal’s story of said British: Lawrence.
Çalsın Sazlar Oynasın Kızlar
Screenplay
event1954
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Pistachio and Mistik are two brothers who cannot hold on to any business. Somehow they are responsible for the safety of a casino.
Where Are These Guys Looking At?
Production Design
event1976 star_border 6.7
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Metin and his best friend Zeki comes to Istanbul to get married. All of a sudden they become famous and funny stories start.
Henpecked
Production Design
event1983 star_border 6.6
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Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events.
The Evening Sun
Writer
event1966
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Nazmi, who was an officer in the military, was injured in the Korean War and retired. He wants to spend the rest of his life on a farm away from city life and settles with his wife on the farm. But the arrival of Jülide to the farm changes all the balances.
The Crying Woman
Director
event1967
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Osman, who opposes his father for the woman he loves, starts preparations for marriage with Sükran. Meanwhile, Sükran learns a great secret about her mother, and is abandoned by Osman when the secret is revealed.
Murderous City
Writer
event1953 star_border 8
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Selma is a young eighteen-year-old girl and her fiance, Ali, is a workshop foreman. One day, Ali is arrested for hitting a man in a nearby cafe. This indident causes her downfall and the tragic events that occur.
Aşkların En Güzeli
Director
event1982
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The marriage of a couple from different economic classes will not work. Years later, the mother will take action to take custody of her child.
The Top Scorer
Writer
event1980 star_border 6.2
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Sait, who is in love with Sevim, a football enthusiast, starts playing football to catch her attention. When Sevim mocks him, Sait gets angry and decides to become a football player.
The Hate
Director
event1984 star_border 4.3
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Fatma leads a rich life with her husband Metin. But when she learns that her husband is cheating on her, she divorces him. Their only daughter Hülya holds her mother responsible for the divorce. Hülya spends her days drinking and at drug parties.
Expat Şaban
Screenplay
event1985 star_border 6.4
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Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.
Deli Deli Küpeli
Writer
event1986 star_border 7.3
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Two schizophrenic patients escape from a mental asylum supposing they were mistakenly quarantined. When they arrive at a country village, the villagers assume one is a sheriff and the other is a local magistrate.
Osman Killed Me
Director
event1963 star_border 7
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After the death of a wealhty man, family members are gather in the mansion to receive the hereditary share. The police enters the circuit after some mysterious deaths in the mansion.
İntikam Alevi
Writer
event1956
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Seeking justice of a man who went to jail after his friends blamed him.
I’m Not Worthy of You
Director
event1965 star_border 6.7
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Osman falls in love with Türkan, the daughter of a wealthy family, but he cannot open his feelings to the young woman. During Osman's military service, his brother Ekrem becomes lovers with Türkan and gets engaged. Although Türkan really loves Ekrem, his plans are completely different.
The Love Race
Producer
event1962
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Two young people fall in love with the same woman.
Dear Madam
Producer
event1963
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Türkan decides to go to her mother Neriman, who left her years ago. Neriman introduces herself as rich with the force of her ex-husband. Neriman, who sells flowers on the streets, will be saved by the help of the neighborhood people and shopkeepers. She finally traces her mother, but when she meets her, many surprises await...
Şaka ile Karışık
Writer
event1965 star_border 8
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The story of Osman begins to take a different direction, with a bet of 1 million that two enemies and a wealthy family have entered into the possibility of an honorable singer.
Twenty Years Later
Director
event1972
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Released from jail after a twenty-year stretch, Nazim returns to Istanbul to find life in turmoil, his family life ruined, and has to deal with a series of personal disasters in the process.
What a Sweet Thing
Director
event1962 star_border 5
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The story of young people who are under the same roof and introduce each other with different identities.
The Golden Cage
Director
event1958 star_border 10
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A love story between a chauffeur, a poor girl and a very rich woman.
Sinekli Bakkal
Director
event1967 star_border 7
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The love and marriage story of Rabia, who was raised with religious education, and Italian pianist Peregrini, who became a Muslim for her sake.
Bağrıyanık
Writer
event1980
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The film tells the story of a fishmonger, who is in love with a beatiful young woman. They prepare for the marriage but all the happiness is destroyed by one bad guy.
Bırakın Yaşayalım
Director
event1974
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Osman's fight with the mafia, who lost his father at a young age.
Ben Topraktan Bir Canım
Director
event1980 star_border 1
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Orhan receives a telegram from the village Agha telling him to go to Istanbul and murder a business rival. Orhan follows orders and kill the industrialist Fazli Çetin. In prison he sent there's a plot against him.
Poor
Producer
event1986 star_border 6.9
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Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.
Thanks a Lot, Granny
Director
event1975 star_border 1
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Mete the little boy of family, receives the grandmother from Italy. But the grandmother neither grand nor mother; just a young woman who will make Mete a man.
İnek Şaban
Director
event1979 star_border 6.6
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A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper.
The Vagabond
Director
event1957
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Bedri is a poor man working in low jobs or stealing. He has a friend named Cilali İbo. Together they witness good and bad things of fate.
Boys Don't Cry
Director
event1974
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