Taner Birsel

Taner Birsel

Born: January 1, 1959
in Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey
Taner Birsel, born in 1959 in Akhisar in the province of Manisa, Turkey, first studied Journalism and Public Relations between 1976-1980. Then he went on to study Performing Arts at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, from 1981 to 1985. He has been an actor at the Istanbul State Theatre and starred in more than 30 plays since 1985.

Some of the plays he starred in: King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hamlet, Ay Isiginda Samata, The Death of Danton. Apart from plays, he is well-known for his career in the motion pictures as well. Some of his awards are as follows: Award for the Best Male Actor at the 24th SIYAD (Turkish Film Critics Association) Awards; Award for the Best Male Actor at the 21st SIYAD Awards for his role in "The Confession", (2002), which was screened at the "Un Certain Regard" section of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; Award for the Best Male Actor for his role in "A Run for Money" (1999) at the 21st Istanbul Film Festival.

Movies for Taner Birsel...

Black Night
Title: Black Night
Character: Ferhat
Released: April 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as well as the community and government officials supporting them, Ishak struggles with the guilt weighing upon him. However, the bigger the crime is, the stronger the silence gets since everyone has blood on their hands.
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Hey There!
Title: Hey There!
Character: Cemil
Released: March 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Istanbul is under quarantine. Felek and Kerim find the best way to make profits in this period. They will access people's computers and introduce themselves as government officials, making them confess their "crimes". However, the city in question is Istanbul and all kinds of people live here.
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Title: Ethos
Character: Orhan
Released: November 12, 2020
Type: TV
A group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meet in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, some by chance and some by force of will.
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Ayla: The Daughter of War
Title: Ayla: The Daughter of War
Character: Fuat Binbaşı
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.
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Sideway
Title: Sideway
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.
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Inflame
Title: Inflame
Character: Independent MP
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?
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Ember
Title: Ember
Character: Ziya
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.
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Drawers
Title: Drawers
Character: Ayhan
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Deniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.
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The Lamb
Title: The Lamb
Character: Adnan Bey
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.
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The Butterfly's Dream
Title: The Butterfly's Dream
Character: Ismail Uslu
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
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Making of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
Title: Making of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
Released: December 31, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Once Upon A Time in Anatolia" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Once Upon A Time in Anatolia' had been shot in about 11 weeks in the steppes of middle Anatolia close to "Keskin", a middle Anatolian town next to the city of Kirikkale.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Title: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Character: Savcı Nusret
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
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Our Grand Despair
Title: Our Grand Despair
Character: Murat
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
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Title: Time Goes By
Character: Osman (Dış Ses)
Released: September 14, 2010
Type: TV
Set in the 1960s, the story of the Akarsu family includes Ali, Cemile and their four children: Berrin, a law student, Aylin and Mete, high school students, and 5 year old Osman. Ali begins an affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman, which leads to the disintegration of the family.
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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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Ölüm
Title: Ölüm
Character: Orhan
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Island: Wedding of the Zombies
Title: Island: Wedding of the Zombies
Character: Usta
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Five people who knew each other for a long time a group of friends, to attend the wedding of a mutual friend goes to Buyukada. Erhan, weddings, and long intervals, the team can come together to be able to record their happy moments brought a camera, and is continuous. All throughout the film viewed, it is reflected from the camera. Later a group of wedding guests attacking zombie, turns into a mess of blood.
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The Shadowless
Title: The Shadowless
Character: Berber
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.
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Cars of the Revolution
Title: Cars of the Revolution
Character: Gündüz
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days!
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Summer Book
Title: Summer Book
Character: Hasan
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Guler is suspicious of her husband having an affair. Veysel, their teenage son, wants to leave the military academy and study business administration. Ali, their 10-year-old son, has to cope both with his bully classmate and the chewing gums he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa's younger brother, chose to live a life in solitude after getting a divorce, and has always been an outsider to the family. But now, with his brother in coma, he finds himself involved in family affairs. Hasan has to solve the mystery about Mustafa's mistress and the money lost during his trip.
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Times and Winds
Title: Times and Winds
Character: Zekeriya
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
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Mommy, I'm Scared
Title: Mommy, I'm Scared
Character: Polis
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
In an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
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Mud
Title: Mud
Character: Temel
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy patch of a dried-up salt lake, but fear holds him back from even going there. Ali participates in Temel's UN projects aimed at defusing tension between Cyprus' Greek and Turkish communities....
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The Confession
Title: The Confession
Character: Harun
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A taut, beautifully acted psychological drama about a husband who suspects his wife of having an affair, but is terrified that confronting her about it might prove she really is.
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O da Beni Seviyor
Title: O da Beni Seviyor
Character: Doğan
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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Elephants and Grass
Title: Elephants and Grass
Released: October 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.
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A Run for Money
Title: A Run for Money
Character: Selim
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives with his wife Ayla, his six-year-old daughter Esma and his old father in a simple flat in and old, modest neighbourhood. He has warm relations with his family. He is an affectionate father. One of his neighbours, a young widow named Nihal tries to seduce Selim, but her flirtation leaves him cold. Selim is known for his honesty and integrity among his family and friends. He is a careful spender. As a little child, he has learned that money is not easily earned. He has no tolerance for petty "trickery" met in daily life. One day, Selim finds a bag full of dollar bills (approximately 500,000$) in a cab. From that day on, Selim finds himself in a bewildered state with a bag full of money on his hands.
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Title: Sır Dosyası
Character: Sedat Çelik
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: TV
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Bir Erkeğin Anatomisi
Title: Bir Erkeğin Anatomisi
Released: February 21, 1997
Type: Movie
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Bir Kadının Anatomisi
Title: Bir Kadının Anatomisi
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie