Tuncel Kurtiz
Also Known As: Tuncel Curtiz
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bilecik, Turkey
Adult: No
Birthday: February 01, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 2013
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The Edge of Heaven
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Code Name Coq Rouge
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Çökertme
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-05-17
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Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Overview: Adventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, and even more dangerous old flames, along the way.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-30
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The Legend of the Ugly King
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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On Fertile Lands
Overview: The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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O da Beni Seviyor
Overview: Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Sawdust Tales
Overview: 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...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Black and White
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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A cavallo della tigre
Overview: Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days before his release, he's forced by two dangerous inmates to take part in their jailbreak. On the run, Guido sets out to find his partner Antonella, who helped him with the robbery and still has the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Tales of Intransigence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2004-03-05
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Somersault in a Coffin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-04-01
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Kalabaliken i Bender
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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The Mahabharata
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Ağrı'ya Dönüş
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Bullets Won't Touch Me
Overview: Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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The Waterfall
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2001-11-14
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Happy Family Journal
Overview: Children of a retired colonel come together after their father falls from the rooftop. This constrained togetherness reveals their lies day by day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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Pains of Autumn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
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Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Road That Has No End
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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I Live When I Die
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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On a Narrow Bridge
Overview: Directed by Nissim Dayan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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The Bus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-01-10
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Journey on a Clock Hand
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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Bir Aşk Uğruna
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Last Birds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Overview: Being condemned to house arrest by her husband, a countess recognises her Turkish servant as a fellow suppressed creature and sets him free…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Kanal
Overview: Directed by Erden Kiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Silahların Kanunu
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Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Hope
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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In Foreign Soil
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-04-10
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Hoşçakal Yarın
Overview: This movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has been executed by military fascist junta in 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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The Ugly King
Overview: The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-06-16
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Love is Colder Than Death
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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My boy, look at the stars
Overview: 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...
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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Kanli Mezar
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Işıklar Sönmesin
Overview: The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Die Hallo-Sisters
Overview: A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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The Herd
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Law of the Border
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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Hasan the Rose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-06-23
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Krallar Ölmez
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Smile of the Lamb
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Overview: 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?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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The Wall
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Horse, Woman and Gun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Kuduz Recep
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Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Time of Vengeance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Guardian Angel
Overview: An unspecified European country ca 1912 in the throws of political upheaval. A man only dressed in black (Jacob, played by Philip Zandén) is hired to assassinate the Interior Minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) after a particular brutal strike down of a student protest. He takes up work as the minister's bodyguard at his summer residence, and get's entangled in the affairs and politics of the Birkman family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-03-18
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Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Krallar Kralı
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Yiğit Yaralı Olur
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Üçünüzü de mıhlarım
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Frozen Leopard
Overview: Two brothers meet again after a few years away from each other. Jerry has been in prison for petty crimes but has now decided to try to live honestly and build a family. Kiljan is a dreamer who lives a life of a bohemian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Overview: Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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