Tuncel Kurtiz

Tuncel Kurtiz

Born: February 1, 1936
Died: September 27, 2013
in Bilecik, Turkey
Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions.

Since 1958, Kurtiz performed on many stages in Istanbul, in state and private theatres. He was also on the stage at Gothenburg City Theatre, Stockholm Royal Theatre and Swedish Theatre in Sweden, Schaubühne Berlin, Frankfurt City Theatre and Hamburg City Theatre in Germany and at Peter Brook Shakespeare Royal Theatre in England. Kurtiz directed plays for the German-Turkish theatre project "Türkisches Ensemble" in the late 1970s.

During his university years and later the military service period, he became friends with the renowned film director Yılmaz Güney. They made a number of films together. Their 1970 film Umut was prohibited to leave Turkey, but was shown in Cannes Film Festival by a smuggled copy.

His first film role was in Şeytanın Uşakları, shot in 1964. Since then, Tuncel Kurtiz played also in many international productions like Swedish, German, Dutch, Italian, French, British, Israel and Indian films and TV series, mostly in the original language.

Movies for Tuncel Kurtiz...

The Legend of the Ugly King
Title: The Legend of the Ugly King
Character: Self (archive)
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.
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Mutlu Aile Defteri
Title: Mutlu Aile Defteri
Character: Yıldırım Taşyumruk
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Children of a retired colonel come together after their father falls from the rooftop. This constrained togetherness reveals their lies day by day.
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My boy, look at the stars
Title: My boy, look at the stars
Character: Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems
Released: May 4, 2012
Type: Movie
February 28 is Deniz Gezmiş's birthday… He would have been 75 years old today; but it only lived for 25 years, and in those 25 years, it had an impact that spanned 75 years. When you have a 25-year-old son, one feels better, what was done to him...
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Title: Magnificent Century
Character: Ebu Suud Efendi
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: TV
At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk... Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
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Pains of Autumn
Title: Pains of Autumn
Character: Kamil
Released: December 23, 2009
Type: Movie
When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and politics under the shadow of the events of September 6th-7th in 1955, the Istanbul Pogrom.
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Title: Ezel
Character: Ramiz Karaeski
Released: September 28, 2009
Type: TV
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
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Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Title: Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Character: Said
Released: December 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Adventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, and even more dangerous old flames, along the way.
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Title: Asi
Character: Cemal Ağa
Released: October 26, 2007
Type: TV
Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
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The Edge of Heaven
Title: The Edge of Heaven
Character: Ali Aksu
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: Movie
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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Title: Hacı
Released: March 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Tales of Intransigence
Title: Tales of Intransigence
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of rivalry between two forms of winter transport: the horse-drawn sleigh which can take the short cut over the frozen lake and the red minibus which needs to be more devious to beat its rival. While the race goes on other tales of intransigence are told in this land of bards and minstrels.
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Title: Alacakaranlık
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: TV
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A cavallo della tigre
Title: A cavallo della tigre
Character: Fatih
Released: November 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he's double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife for, who runs off with the money while he gets arrested. In prison, Guido is forcefully involved in the escape plans of two lifers, an old Moroccan and a Turkish gangster. Once free, he sets out to find Antonella, who has since become a TV reporter, but things get complicated...
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The Waterfall
Title: The Waterfall
Character: Kel Selim
Released: November 14, 2001
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous painter, Cemal goes back to his hometown years later and remembers his childhood. In those days Cemal's father and uncle, member of rival political parties, are in a continious struggle with each other. The film depicts this absurd struggle and the strange stories of people in Harbiye together with the lyric story of the famous waterfall of the town.
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O da Beni Seviyor
Title: O da Beni Seviyor
Character: Masalcı
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican.
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In Foreign Soil
Title: In Foreign Soil
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2001
Type: Movie
In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to Anatolian soil.
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Hoşçakal Yarın
Title: Hoşçakal Yarın
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
This movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has been executed by military fascist junta in 1972.
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Title: Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Character: Uncle Ismet
Released: June 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The original French title translates as "Long Live the Bride...and the Liberation of Kurdistan." Cheto (Georges Corraface) seeks a wife via videotapes while still seeing his French girlfriend, immigration office worker Christine (Stephanie Lagarde). Cheto places an order for a beautiful girl, but he's disappointed when her sister, country girl Mina (Marina Kobakhidze), arrives at the airport as a substitute. Family pressure forces him to marry her. Unhappy with the way she's treated by Cheto, Mina acquires some progressive notions from Leila (Schahla Aalam) and other local feminists, leading to confrontations with Cheto.
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Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Title: Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Released: March 13, 1998
Type: Movie
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Çökertme
Title: Çökertme
Released: May 17, 1997
Type: Movie
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Journey on a Clock Hand
Title: Journey on a Clock Hand
Character: Agah
Released: April 9, 1997
Type: Movie
A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.
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Sawdust Tales
Title: Sawdust Tales
Character: Fisherman
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...
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Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Title: Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Being condemned to house arrest by her husband, a countess recognises her Turkish servant as a fellow suppressed creature and sets him free…
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Işıklar Sönmesin
Title: Işıklar Sönmesin
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.
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Somersault in a Coffin
Title: Somersault in a Coffin
Character: Reis
Released: April 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Title: Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Character: Topal Recep Paşa
Released: March 15, 1996
Type: Movie
During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.
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Bir Aşk Uğruna
Title: Bir Aşk Uğruna
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Title: Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Love is Colder Than Death
Title: Love is Colder Than Death
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
In the movie, the life of a singer who has problems with her husband is narrated. Belgin, who works at a night club as a belly dancer, is taken to the police station due to an inspection. Ali, owner of a casino, rescues him, hence they get closer. Belgin, after quitting dancing and starting singing, marries Ali. After a while, Ali’s ex-girlfriend appears and this damages their relationship. Meanwhile, Ali disappears as his business goes worse and Belgin starts to work with a manager who opens her the way leading to fame. Ali, who returns after a while, starts to intervene to Belgin’s life.
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Die Hallo-Sisters
Title: Die Hallo-Sisters
Character: Samy
Released: November 29, 1990
Type: Movie
A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...
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The Guardian Angel
Title: The Guardian Angel
Character: Ivar
Released: March 18, 1990
Type: Movie
A radical socialist is placed as a bodyguard with a minister for the purpose of murdering him. The meeting with the minister's family complicates his task.
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The Mahabharata
Title: The Mahabharata
Character: Shakuni
Released: January 24, 1990
Type: Movie
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
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Time of Vengeance
Title: Time of Vengeance
Character: grand-father
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandfather's revolver, he intends to avenge his father, who was a "guest worker" and was killed in a car accident. On his quest for "vengeance", Orhan meets friends and enemies and finds himself in a totally strange world. Finally he realizes the absurdity of his plan and returns to his village.
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Code Name Coq Rouge
Title: Code Name Coq Rouge
Character: Al-Houl
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated.
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The Smile of the Lamb
Title: The Smile of the Lamb
Character: Hilmi
Released: September 1, 1986
Type: Movie
This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries to flush out some fugitive PLO activists by hanging the rotting, stinking carcass of a dead donkey in a village square. Israeli doctor Rami Danon forgets his animosity towards the PLO and, out of compassion, cuts the carcass down. For disobeying Khouri's orders, Danon becomes as much a fugitive as the Palestinians. While in hiding, Danon befriends Arab hermit Tuncel Kurtiz, whose adopted son is a member of the PLO.
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On a Narrow Bridge
Title: On a Narrow Bridge
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Directed by Nissim Dayan.
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Kalabaliken i Bender
Title: Kalabaliken i Bender
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Tonton Ali
Released: February 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
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Hasan the Rose
Title: Hasan the Rose
Character: The film director
Released: June 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on that his compatriots have saved big money working in Sweden. Money he intend to spend on making a film.
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On Fertile Lands
Title: On Fertile Lands
Character: Zeynel
Released: January 2, 1980
Type: Movie
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
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The Herd
Title: The Herd
Character: Hamo
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
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Kanal
Title: Kanal
Released: January 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Directed by Erden Kiral.
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The Bus
Title: The Bus
Released: January 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.
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Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Title: Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunystraße features the war-widow Frau Kutzer, the philosopher-guest worker Niyazi, as well as other characters passing through the street. The street itself bears silent witness to the deferred good life of the laborer. If Germany is “a little America,” as the narrator tells us, could there have been a “German Dream” for the migrant worker? Or is Berlin-Kreuzberg rather the site of an ongoing nightmare filled with the specters of Germany’s past? How do stories of place and of people converge on Naunystrasse? And how does this documentary speak to us today?
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Der Kleine
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Hope
Title: Hope
Character: Hasan
Released: May 25, 1970
Type: Movie
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
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Bana Kurşun İşlemez
Title: Bana Kurşun İşlemez
Character: Cengiz
Released: April 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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Kuduz Recep
Title: Kuduz Recep
Character: Hamza
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Krallar Ölmez
Title: Krallar Ölmez
Character: Komiser
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Loosely based on "The Girl Hunters" written by Mickey Spillane. After many years on a drunken binge over the disappearance of his love, Murat (Ayhan Isik) is picked up out of the gutter by the police and dropped smack-dab in the middle of a political bombshell.
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Law of the Border
Title: Law of the Border
Character: Bekir
Released: October 4, 1966
Type: Movie
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.
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The Ugly King
Title: The Ugly King
Released: June 16, 1966
Type: Movie
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
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At Avrat Silah
Title: At Avrat Silah
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life.
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Silahların Kanunu
Title: Silahların Kanunu
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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I Live When I Die
Title: I Live When I Die
Character: Cemal
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz Güney confirms his acting qualities with a pathetic composition.
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The Road That Has No End
Title: The Road That Has No End
Character: Köylü
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The film follows the lives of those who immigrate to the city, leaving their families behind. Ahmet and his friends came to the city with great expectations, but soon confront the difficulties of adjusting to life there. After days of job hunting, they finally find employment in the harbor.
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Krallar Kralı
Title: Krallar Kralı
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
Title: Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Last Birds
Title: The Last Birds
Character: Turgut
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A love story begins in an Istanbul bookstore. A young engineer meets a schoolgirl in her final year of studies. He follows her to her home. The next day, he looks again for her, and again and again. Slowly, he overcomes her shyness to win her affection, and finally her love.
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
Title: Sokakta Kan Vardı
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie