Tuncel Kurtiz
Birthday: 1936-02-01
Place of Birth: Bilecik, Turkey
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.
Movies
The Edge of Heaven
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...
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Code Name Coq Rouge
His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a g...
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Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Adventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, a...
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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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On Fertile Lands
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova....
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O da Beni Seviyor
Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican....
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Sawdust Tales
Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first...
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Black and White
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling do...
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On the Tiger's Back
Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at ...
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Tales of Intransigence
The story of rivalry between two forms of winter transport: the horse-drawn sleigh which can take th...
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Somersault in a Coffin
Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a h...
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Kalabaliken i Bender
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedi...
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The Mahabharata
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production fro...
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Bullets Won't Touch Me
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years....
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The Waterfall
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The econ...
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Happy Family Journal
Children of a retired colonel come together after their father falls from the rooftop. This constrai...
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Pains of Autumn
When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds hi...
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The Road That Has No End
The film follows the lives of those who immigrate to the city, leaving their families behind. Ahmet ...
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I Live When I Die
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and ...
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On a Narrow Bridge
The story of an impossible love in the Occupied Territories between an Israeli officer and a Palesti...
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The Bus
A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their mo...
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Journey on a Clock Hand
A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. H...
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The Last Birds
A love story begins in an Istanbul bookstore. A young engineer meets a schoolgirl in her final year ...
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Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Being condemned to house arrest by her husband, a countess recognises her Turkish servant as a fello...
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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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Silahların Kanunu
The film is about a cop who switches places with a criminal who robbed a bank. Yılmaz Ali stole a bu...
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Hope
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the dese...
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,...
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In Foreign Soil
In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, b...
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Hoşçakal Yarın
This movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has be...
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Love is Colder Than Death
In the movie, the life of a singer who has problems with her husband is narrated. Belgin, who works ...
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My boy, look at the stars
February 28 is Deniz Gezmiş's birthday… He would have been 75 years old today; but it only lived for...
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Kanli Mezar
The film tells the story of archaeologist Yılmaz, Murat, and Zeynep's fight against an international...
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Işıklar Sönmesin
The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of t...
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Die Hallo-Sisters
A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nati...
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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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Istanbul Beneath My Wings
During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had...
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Law of the Border
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling...
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Hasan the Rose
A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth i...
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Krallar Ölmez
Loosely based on "The Girl Hunters" written by Mickey Spillane. After many years on a drunken binge...
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The Smile of the Lamb
This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries...
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Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunystraße features the war-widow Frau Kutzer, the philosopher-...
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The Wall
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offens...
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Horse, Woman and Gun
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love bet...
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Kuduz Recep
The film tells the story of a gang leader who helps in the national struggle. Paşa receives gold fro...
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Time of Vengeance
Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandf...
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The Guardian Angel
An unspecified European country ca 1912 in the throws of political upheaval. A man only dressed in b...
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Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
The story of a man who was wrongfully imprisoned and spent six years behind bars, only to be release...
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
The story of a journalist and a prostitution ring that leads young girls astray. Faruk, who is marri...
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Krallar Kralı
It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While search...
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Yiğit Yaralı Olur
The film tells the story of Yusuf and Gül, who are planning to get married, and their lives that are...
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The Frozen Leopard
Two brothers meet again after a few years away from each other. Jerry has been in prison for petty c...
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All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany,...
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