Taner Birsel
Birthday: 1959-01-01
Place of Birth: Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey
Biography: 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
Times and Winds
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent pe...
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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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Our Grand Despair
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love wit...
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Cars of the Revolution
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Tu...
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The Shadowless
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day of...
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally...
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The Lamb
In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not ha...
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Elephants and Grass
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by...
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Mommy, I'm Scared
In an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three ma...
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The Confession
A taut, beautifully acted psychological drama about a husband who suspects his wife of having an aff...
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Summer Book
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his fa...
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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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Bir Erkeğin Anatomisi
The story of Taner, a lawyer who has problems with his aging wife, lives with his sister Saime, who ...
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Bir Kadının Anatomisi
A woman and the four men who enter her life... The search for happiness, marriages, arguments, separ...
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Mud
Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperate...
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Drawers
Deniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and th...
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Ember
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immedi...
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Sır Dosyası
A commissioner and his deputy, two members of the secret police department called the "Blue Bureau",...
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Inflame
Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she ...
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Ayla: The Daughter of War
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen littl...
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The Butterfly's Dream
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As...
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Sideway
The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. Th...
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A Run for Money
The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothi...
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Making of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Once Upon A Time in Anatolia" by Nuri Bilge Ce...
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Black Night
Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago come...
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Island: Wedding of the Zombies
Five people who knew each other for a long time a group of friends, to attend the wedding of a mutua...
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Death
Emre's (8) parents have temporarily left him at his grandmother and grandfather's summer house. Emre...
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Hey There!
Istanbul is under quarantine. Felek and Kerim find the best way to make profits in this period. They...
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Blue Cave
When Cem finds himself at the brink of losing the love of his life, Alara, he embarks on an expediti...
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