Erkan Kolçak Köstendil

Erkan Kolçak Köstendil

Born: January 16, 1983
in Bursa, Turkey
Erkan Kolcak Köstendil, is a Turkish actor, writer, director, and singer.Her uncle is actor Bülent Sakrak. Born and raised in Bursa, a large city located in northwestern Anatolia, Kostendil was considering and working towards becoming a goalkeeper until his path crossed with two seasoned actors who made such an impression on him that he decided to study theater at the prestigious Mimar Sinan University of the Fine Arts. Kostendil later went on to write, direct, and act in plays and short films. He wrote and starred in the play 'Karsi Cinsle Tanisma Sanati' and was in another play named 'Aut', for which he was chosen 'Actor of the Year'. This play also earned him a 'Young Actor Special' award. Kostendil always kept busy as he wrote and directed the first Turkish Facebook Series, 'Mukadderat'. He gained widespread industry recognition as well as many awards with his short film, 'Vakit'. Kostendil then went on to write and direct a medium-length film which was shot in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Making a successful transition into TV acting, Kostendil has appeared in numerous popular shows and has claimed his place within the acting world by capitalizing on his unique character interpretations. He first appeared on 'Kurtlar Vadisi' in 2005. Kostendil got his first big break with the 2009 production, 'Sakarya Firat' in which he played a low-ranking soldier, and portrayed the character with utmost authenticity. In the following years he appeared in a number of movies and TV shows. In 2014, he portrayed the character 'Karlos Nevizade', on the hit TV show, 'Ulan Istanbul'. This character became a phenomenon among the Turkish TV audience, and gained Kostendil huge fame and recognition all around Turkey. It was on this show that he and one of his co-stars, Sebnem Bozoklu, performed a song he had written named 'Yanarim Yanarim' in one of the episodes. This performance got millions of views on Youtube. After a couple more successful projects, Kostendil appeared in the internationally aired historical drama, 'Muhtesem Yuzyil: Kosem', successfully portraying 'Shahin Khan Girai', the last Khan of Crimea. His last appearance was on the TV show, 'Familya'.

Movies for Erkan Kolçak Köstendil...

Not Your Average Family
Title: Not Your Average Family
Character: Hızır
Released: February 9, 2024
Type: Movie
The life of 35-year-old Murat, who lives with his family in a neighborhood in Istanbul, is turned upside down by the death of his father. The question of whether to bury his father in Istanbul or in the village causes divisions within the family. As the father is about to be buried in a cemetery in Istanbul, the family realizes that the deceased is someone else. Murat, influenced by his cousin Hızır, begins to suspect each member of the family, and his paranoia escalates within this chaotic day. At the end of the night, Murat will be confronted with the truth that he is indeed an integral part of this family that he has always rejected.
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Title: What Ships I've Burnt
Character: Toprak
Released: December 4, 2023
Type: TV
In 'What Ships I've Burnt,' Yasemin and Fidan, bonded by motherhood, navigate survival amidst challenges. Fidan's past with dark Rutkay and Chief Inspector Toprak's pursuit reshape their lives
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Title: Creature
Character: İhsan
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: TV
When tragedy befalls a reckless scientist in Ottoman-era Istanbul, his student uses untested methods to finish his work — with devastating consequences.
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Bandırma Füze Kulübü
Title: Bandırma Füze Kulübü
Character: Necati
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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Heartsong
Title: Heartsong
Character: Piroz
Released: August 10, 2022
Type: Movie
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
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Konuşma
Title: Konuşma
Released: December 20, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Pes Artık
Character: Ev Sahibi Oyuncu
Released: May 24, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Tonight with İbrahim Selim
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: TV
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Turkish Ice Cream
Title: Turkish Ice Cream
Character: Cameleer Ali
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia.
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Sibel
Title: Sibel
Character: Ali
Released: January 4, 2019
Type: Movie
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
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Put to the Things
Title: Put to the Things
Character: Gökhan
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The already complex connections of a group of artists living in İstanbul’s Cihangir district are becoming bizarre because of a camcorder entering their lives. A narcissistic director in which all the women are in love, two roommates connected by cable, a theater scene that can turn into a morgue concurrently, a nurse who resurrects the dead people, and a drug dealer who has no arms, sometimes the right, sometimes the left, sometimes both arms; these are protagonists of the experimental narrative that Onur Ünlü plays with time and space.
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Muslum
Title: Muslum
Character: Gazino Sahibi
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A biopic about the Turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses. Born into a poor household, Muslum found his redemption in music from the initial trauma that lingered over his musical and personal life as internalizing the grief. He rose through his ashes of shattered dreams like a phoenix. He walked in darkness, sang songs filled with sorrow which stirred people's souls and created a cult following. They were calling him "Baba" (The Father).
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Gerçek Kesit: Manyak
Title: Gerçek Kesit: Manyak
Released: March 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Riza, a garbage man becomes obsessed in her old mother when he finds a woman's corpse in a garbage can. But someday he meets with his new neighbor,a beautiful widow and starts to lose track of reality, stuck between his love and her mother.
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Title: The Pit
Character: Vartolu Saadettin/Salih Koçovalı
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape.
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My Father
Title: My Father
Character: Deniz
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
After his wife's sudden death, a man takes care of his son living with a disability with help from a new employee at his struggling factory.
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Title: Visible Man
Character: Kurtuluş
Released: May 15, 2017
Type: TV
In a world where being invisible is the norm, fainthearted Kurtulus finds himself in the middle of an explosion that would turn him visible, which set by the villain boss Esref Serif.
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Title: Familya
Character: Toprak Beyoğlu
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Magnificent Century: Kösem
Character: Şahin Giray
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: TV
Tells the legendary story between the Sultan of Kosem and Ahmed I.
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The Team
Title: The Team
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
This film about the story of two brothers who do not want to sell the carpet field inherited from their father tells a funny and sometimes sad dille to struggle to kill their dreams despite the difficulties and the neighborhood solidarity from time to time.
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No Way
Title: No Way
Character: Fikret
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
A Turkish taxi driver tells stories which are almost unbelievable.
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Trouble on Wheels
Title: Trouble on Wheels
Character: Güven
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife and father, Kudret, who has always lived by the book, decides to go on a road trip to save a girl.
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Yağmur: Kıyamet Çiçeği
Title: Yağmur: Kıyamet Çiçeği
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
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One Night in Istanbul
Title: One Night in Istanbul
Character: Undercover Cop
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
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Title: Bandits
Character: Karlos Nevizade
Released: June 23, 2014
Type: TV
Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.
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Let's Sin
Title: Let's Sin
Character: Superman
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene and collect the first evidence and start the investigation process. He takes action after this event and decides to resolve the case through some people and circumstances he suspects. Every clue leads to an unexpected point and the events become increasingly mysterious.
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Title: Merhamet
Character: Mehmet Yilmaz
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: TV
A successful lawyer meets her lost childhood love after 13 years of deserting her poor hometown and abusive family. That encounter forces her to reconcile with her traumatic past and search for her lost family and their tragic fate.
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Title: Babalar ve Evlatlar
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: TV
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Dragon Trap
Title: Dragon Trap
Character: Olay Yeri İnceleme Polisi
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: Movie
When a serial killer goes after former convicted pedophiles, it is up to Police Commissioner Abbas and his Chief Celal to stop the killings.
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Title: Sakarya-Fırat
Character: Er Mahmut Karakum
Released: December 16, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: The Devil's in the Details
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Captain Nevzat and his assistant Ali. The series that have been adapted from Ahmet Umit's stories.