Tarık Akan
Birthday: 1949-12-13
Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
Biography: Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan. He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school....
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The Legend of the Ugly King
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer...
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El Kapıları
When Zeynel goes away to work, her lover Elif is adopted by a rich aga. After a while, it is heard t...
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Piano Girl
The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family....
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Su da Yanar
It is the story of the dilemmas and struggles in the life of a film director during a period when fe...
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My Dear Brother
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them....
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The Blue Bead
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'...
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Abdulhamid Falling
Şefik, a successful soldier, is one of the leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress. W...
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Aşk Üzerine Söylenmemiş Her Şey
Five short films by five directors based on themes of love and tolerance, each independent of the ot...
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The Chaos Class
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in t...
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Vizontele Tuuba
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has ...
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After the Fall
In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singi...
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Son Darbe
Nazmi is a young man who works as a doctor in Mardin. One day, he learns that there has been a mass ...
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White Death
Meral is a show girl and drug addict and Yilmaz is a handsome police chief who fights against drug d...
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Oh Olsun
A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor...
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Sweet Talker
Ferit is a basketball player from Istanbul. One day, at a camp he attends, he meets Emine, a village...
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Layla, Ma Raison
Since childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, c...
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Bir Kadın Düşmanı
Ziya's passion for his partner's wife Zuhal and his past mistakes have made his life miserable. On t...
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Seninle Son Defa
The film tells the story of a married woman who falls in love with a younger man. Nesrin is a middle...
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Halkalı Köle
The couple, who are married and have two children, are in the process of divorcing. Problems that ha...
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Blood
Seyit Ağa, who attends a wedding to which he was not invited, starts an endless blood feud. A film a...
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Oh Where
Three boys are having their higher education in Istanbul (!). In fact, they are messing around and d...
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Kayıp Kızlar
Young, beautiful, and innocent girls from different economic and social backgrounds, who share simil...
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Our Family
A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marri...
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Evcilik Oyunu
A young woman, Süreyya, distrustful of men, enters a sham marriage with Necmi Gökmen to escape rumor...
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Lekeli Melek
The film tells the story of a man trying to save his sister from a life of crime. When Yusuf was you...
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Kızımın Kanı
Cemil is a ski instructor who is divorced from his wife. His daughter Figen lives with her mother. F...
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The River
A group of young people living a luxurious life in Istanbul go to a village for a rafting adventure ...
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The Wrestler
With good guidance from director Zeki Okten but an uninspired script, this story of a brother and hi...
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Remedy
A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isol...
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The Road
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they f...
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Blackout Night
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into interna...
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Sev Kardeşim
A factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory....
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Kanal
Based on real events, this story traces a young district governor’s moral awakening as he confronts ...
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The Three Superboys in the Snow
Cafer, bored with his marriage, works as a cashier. One day he is caught embezzling a large sum of m...
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The Letter
A man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody....
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Gecenin Sonu
The film is about a father and son, both notorious gangsters, reuniting after many years. Hasan, a n...
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Emine
The film tells the story of two brothers who fall in love with the same woman. Murat, who lost his f...
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The Herd
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodit...
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My Dear Uncle
Turkish Uncle Buck. A funny slob (Tarik Akan) leaves his village after getting into trouble. He leav...
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Umut Dünyası
A girl later known as an orphan has to be taken care of because of an accusation of her Former emplo...
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Bizim Kız
The lives of Hacer, Ömer, Tayfur, Haydar, and Cevriye take a dramatic turn when they find a baby in ...
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Delisin
A shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused and wo...
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The Mine
When work accidents in a coal mine start to result in death, İlyas warns his colleagues working in t...
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Let It Be
Ferit who works as a reporter on a newspaper, makes fake news about the olive oil king Hulusi. One d...
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Aflame
Handsome yacht captain Murat and beautiful Alev are two lovers preparing for marriage. But being tog...
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Berdel
Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and ...
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Baby Face
The story of three siblings who lost their parents at a young age and went their separate ways. Know...
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Kader Bağlayınca
A devoted portrait photographer Murat and flower-selling entertainer Zeynep, who frequently clash ye...
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Üç Sevgili
Ali is a flirtatious young man who is managing three girlfriends at the same time. When the three lo...
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Yaz Bekârı
Orhan, who works at a bank, has an unhappy marriage. His wife, Şermin, drinks constantly, gambles, a...
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The Sacrifice
After being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his 2.5-month-old...
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Bir Avuç Cennet
The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a bett...
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Aşk Dediğin Laf Değildir
The love story of a handsome beach attendant with two young women, one rich and the other disabled....
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Baraj
Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of...
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The Other Side of Beyoğlu
Reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of a ni...
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Devlerin Ölümü
About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes....
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Çark
The injustice that people suffer in the workplace and the weight of working conditions cause them to...
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Çapkın Hırsız
Orhan and Cemal are two thieves who work together abroad. Orhan learns that Cemal's grandfather, who...
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Acı Dünya
Yusuf, who attacked seven people with a knife in the middle of the street, begins to tell his life s...
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Çoçuklar Çiçektir
The film depicts the horror of rabies in a small town. World War II is raging. The war affects the l...
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Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi
A young couple meets a child on a day of an invitation. A child tells to her that she is his mother....
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Gece Kuşu Zehra
Ferit wins a large prize in the lottery and buys a car, then goes on vacation with his friends. He i...
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Vefasız
The film tells the story of the love triangle between Zehra, Ömer, and Meral. Zehra lost her family ...
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An Angel on Earth
Tomboy Zehra helps Omer to get with the girl he is madly in love with after saving him from a suicid...
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Kimlik
The story of a married couple who searched for identity after the September 12 coup and clashed with...
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Kaderimin Oyunu
Thinking that her fiancé, Bülent, is dead, Sema's life will become even more tragic when she loses h...
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The Girlfriend
This awesome and incredibly rare Turkish/Italian co-production, starts out as a Euro crime outing an...
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Paramparça
A car accident brings together Cemil and the young and beautiful doctor Ümran, whose car he crashes ...
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The Third Eye
Tunç, who is a director, is looking for a location in a small town for his new film. He observes eve...
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Tele Kızlar
Şahin is a courageous and aggressive police commissioner who pursues female traffickers. He is the n...
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Kıskıvrak
The film tells the story of the relationship between a police officer fighting crime syndicates and ...
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Yosma
Kerem, who lives in a small town in Anatolia, goes to Istanbul on a business opportunity. However, t...
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İsa, Musa, Meryem
The film tells the story of two brothers who fall in love with the same woman. Isa grows up with his...
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A Little Cloud
A young man, his wife, and their child move to Istanbul to start a new life. Since they don't have a...
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The Passenger
The railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during the ...
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The Stigma
Tarik Akan plays a man who attempts to get revenge for the rape of his fiancee....
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Azad Kuşu
The film tells the story of a mother trying to get her sick son operated. Working as a worker in a c...
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Sisli Hatıralar
The movie tells about the experiences of three men who are in love with the same woman. Businessman ...
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Para
It tells the story of a man taking revenge on his girlfriend, who cheated on him with his closest fr...
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Esir Hayat
The film tells the story of Aydın and Ayşe, who crossed the roads in Cyprus, for their love. Ayşe st...
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Kanlı Deniz
The film tells about the struggle between two men who are in love with the same woman. Ahmet and Azi...
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Mahcup Delikanlı
The film tells the story of a man who is in love with the brother of a woman with whom he had an aff...
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My Friend
The story of a man who learns that his friend, whom he loves more than his life, is the enemy he was...
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Deli Kan
Sefer, a fisherman from the village of Mitari in Rize, is in love with a girl named Zekiye. Although...
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Yağmur Kaçakları
The film tells the story of a man who flees abroad and his relationship with a foreign woman. The ma...
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Şeref Sözü
Story of two brothers, struggling to build a life after losing their father in a young age....
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We Called Him the Ugly King
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney...
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We Hit The Road
Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years...
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