Tarık Akan
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.
The Road
as Seyit AliWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that...
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The Chaos Class
as Damat FeritLazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together...
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
as Damat FeritA young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
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Vizontele Tuuba
as Güner SernikliGuner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter,...
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Our Family
as FeritA love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their...
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My Dear Brother
as MuratTwo 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
as Yakışıklı NecmiAfter being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six...
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Oh Olsun
as Ferit HaznedarA tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the...
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Oh Where
as FeritThree boys are having their higher education in Istanbul (!). In fact, they are messing around...
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The Herd
as SivanBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious...
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Sweet Talker
as FeritTarik is the best scorer basketball player of his team and is very popular. One day he comes to...
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Sev Kardeşim
as Ferit ÇalışkanA factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory.
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The Wrestler
as BilalWith good guidance from director Zeki Okten but an uninspired script, this story of a brother...
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The Other Side of Beyoğlu
as Haydar RızaReminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of...
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Suçlu
as HakanA genetic narrator who lovingly loves his friend's wife tells the story.
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The Girlfriend
as MuratThis awesome and incredibly rare Turkish/Italian co-production, starts out as a Euro crime...
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The Stigma
as CengizTarik Akan plays a man who attempts to get revenge for the rape of his fiancee.
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The Three Superboys in the Snow
as Ömer / FintontoCafer, bored with his marriage, works as a cashier. One day he is caught embezzling a large sum...
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Delisin
as uncreditedA shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused...
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Kimlik
as uncreditedThe story of a married couple who searched for identity after the September 12 coup and clashed...
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Firefly
as TarıkThe road runner movie of two clever cheaters turns to a love story.
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The Legend of the Ugly King
as SelfDirector Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted...
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Piano Girl
as MişkaThe story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.
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The Mine
as NurettinWhen work accidents in a coal mine start to result in death, İlyas warns his colleagues working...
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Let It Be
as uncreditedFerit who works as a reporter on a newspaper, makes fake news about the olive oil king Hulusi....
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My Friend
as AliThe story of a man who learns that his friend, whom he loves more than his life, is the enemy he...
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The Letter
as RagıpA man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody.
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The Sacrifice
as MüminAfter being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his...
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Devlerin Ölümü
as uncreditedAbout a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.
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The River
as SinanA group of young people living a luxurious life in Istanbul go to a village for a rafting...
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Siyabend and Xece
as SiyabendThe mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.
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Remedy
as ŞehmuzA midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an...
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Kanlı Deniz
as AhmetThe film tells about the struggle between two men who are in love with the same woman. Ahmet and...
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Baraj
as OrhanNazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful...
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Kaderimin Oyunu
as uncreditedThinking that her fiancé, Bülent, is dead, Sema's life will become even more tragic when she...
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Umut Dünyası
as AhmetA girl later known as an orphan has to be taken care of because of an accusation of her Former...
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Blackout Night
as Mustafa UralIn this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into...
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Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi
as Murat SaymanA young couple meets a child on a day of an invitation. A child tells to her that she is his...
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Berdel
as ÖmerFamily relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy...
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Esir Hayat
as AydınThe film tells the story of Aydın and Ayşe, who crossed the roads in Cyprus, for their love....
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Şeref Sözü
as SedatStory of two brothers, struggling to build a life after losing their father in a young age.
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Mahcup Delikanlı
as MetinThe film tells the story of a man who is in love with the brother of a woman with whom he had an...
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Layla, Ma Raison
as uncreditedSince childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his...
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White Death
as Komiser Yilmakz GürelMeral is a show girl and drug addict and Yilmaz is a handsome police chief who fights against...
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The Passenger
as MakasçıThe railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during...
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My Dear Uncle
as TarıkTurkish Uncle Buck. A funny slob (Tarik Akan) leaves his village after getting into trouble. He...
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An Angel on Earth
as ÖmerTomboy Zehra helps Omer to get with the girl he is madly in love with after saving him from a...
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Kaçak
as uncreditedThe love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.
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Sisli Hatıralar
as HakanThe movie tells about the experiences of three men who are in love with the same woman....
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Angel or Devil?
as SedatA young bride wows to take revenge on her father's killers.
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Yosma
as KeremKerem, who lives in a small town in Anatolia, goes to Istanbul on a business opportunity....
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Azad Kuşu
as HakanThe film tells the story of a mother trying to get her sick son operated. Working as a worker in...
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