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Baki Davrak
Baki Davrak (born 1971) is a Turkish-German actor who is known for his leading role in the film ''The Edge of Heaven (film), The Edge of Heaven'' (''Auf der anderen Seite'') which won the Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival), Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Life Baki Davrak received his training in Hannover and Berlin theatres. Although he has worked on numerous films, he continues to act in the theater. Baki Davrak first gained attention in Kutluğ Ataman's 1997 film ''Lola and Billy the Kid'' and Thomas Arslan's 1999 film '. After these films, Baki Davrak took a break from film productions and became a care taker of a park until Fatih Akin offered him the main role as Professor Nejat, a professor of Turkish descent who teaches German, in his 2007 film ''The Edge of Heaven (film), The Edge of Heaven''.Heike Faller"Mein Freund, der Schauspieler" ''Die Zeit'', 25 October 2007, , archived frothe originalon 28 October 2007]. The film won several internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Säckingen
Bad Säckingen (High Alemannic: ''Bad Säckinge'') is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is famous as the "Trumpeteer's City" because of the book ''Der Trompeter von Säckingen'' ("The Trumpeter of Säckingen"), a famous 19th-century novel by German author Joseph Victor von Scheffel. Geography Bad Säckingen is located in the very southwest of Germany next to the Swiss border on the river Rhine. The city lies on the southern edge of the Black Forest area. Nearby places *Close (15 km): Waldshut-Tiengen, Schopfheim, Lörrach, Basel, Brugg AG, Aarau AG, Zürich, Schaffhausen SH, St. Blasien, Todtmoos, Freiburg i.Br., Konstanz. History The history of the city dates back to the early 6th Century, when Saint Fridolin founded Säckingen Abbey and a church. Around 1200 most of the city was destroyed in a huge fire. Afterwards, construction began in the middle of the town on a Gothic cathedral, called t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordkommission Istanbul
''Mordkommission Istanbul'' (''Istanbul Homicide Unit'') is a German television series. Plot Istanbul police inspector Mehmet Özakin is in charge of murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish city. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by Mustafa Tombul. Even his private life is progressive, his wife Sevim being on the former imperial capital's university staff. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama * '' 4 Blocks'' ( TNT Serie, 2017–2019) * '' Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ( RTL, 1996–present) * ''Babylon Berlin'' (Sky 1 & ARD, 2017–pre ... External links * 2008 German television series debuts 2010s German television series German crime television series 2000s German police procedural television series 2010s German police procedural television series 2020s German police procedural television series Televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Und Bilidikid
''Lola and Billy the Kid'' (german: Lola und Bilidikid) is a 1999 film scripted and directed by Kutluğ Ataman and produced in Germany. It has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 40%. Plot Seventeen-year-old Murat, from Turkey but living in Berlin, Germany with his mother and older brother Osman, seems to be struggling with his sexuality while Osman, head of the household since the father's death and a taxi driver, strongly urges Murat to lose his virginity to a woman. However, suspecting that Murat is gay and believing that his Turkish background makes him lesser of a person, some boys from Murat's school harass and beat him. Meanwhile, Lola, a Turkish male who dresses as a female, argues with his boyfriend, a “macho” Turkish male named Bilidikid (Billy), about returning to Turkey. Billy wants Lola to get a sex reassignment (from male to female) and move with him, but Lola refuses, knowing that if he had the surgery, Billy would leave him. After discovering that Lola is his brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Von Goethe
August von Goethe, portrait by Julie Gräfin Egloffstein Julius August Walther von Goethe (25 December 1789 – 27 October 1830) was the only one of the five children of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane Vulpius to survive into adulthood. He was born in Weimar and served at the court of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He studied law 1808-1809 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. After that brief period, his primary employment was as a kind of personal secretary to his father. He accompanied him on his frequent trips and kept his travel diary. Like his parents, he had a penchant for alcohol, but unlike them, he had a tendency to be melancholic. At the age of 27, he married Ottilie von Pogwisch (1796–1872) on 17 Jun 1817 in Weimar. Although the marriage proved difficult, the couple had three children: Walther von Goethe, Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe (1820–1883) and Alma Sedina Henriette Cornelia von Goethe (1827–1844). In 1830, he un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz
''Our Grand Despair'' ( tr, Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz) is a 2011 Turkish drama film, directed by Seyfi Teoman, about two flatmates who reluctantly take in their friend's traumatised sister. The film premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Ilker Aksum as Ender * Fatih Al as Cetin * Gunes Sayin as Nihal * Taner Birsel as Murat - Cetin's brother * Baki Davrak as Fikret - Nihal's brother * Mehmet Ali Nuroglu Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muha ... as Bora - Nihal's boyfriend References External links * 2011 films 2011 drama films Films set in Turkey 2010s Turkish-language films Films based on Turkish novels Turkish drama films Films shot in Ankara {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đurađ Branković
Đurađ Branković (; sr-cyr, Ђурађ Бранковић; hu, Brankovics György; 1377 – 24 December 1456) was the Serbian Despot from 1427 to 1456. He was one of the last Serbian medieval rulers. He was a participant in the battle of Ankara (1402) and Ottoman Interregnum (1403-1413). During his reign, the despotate was a vassal of both Ottoman sultans as well as Hungarian kings. Despot George was neutral during the Polish-Lithuanian (1444) and Hungarian-Wallachian (1448) crusades. In 1455, he was wounded and imprisoned during clashes with the Hungarians, after which the young Sultan Mehmed II launched the siege of Belgrade and its large Hungarian garrison. Despot Đurađ died at the end of 1456, due to complications stemming from the wound. After his death, Serbia, Bosnia and Albania (West Balkans) became practically annexed by sultan Mehmed II, which only ended after centuries of additional conquests of Byzantine lands. Đurađ attained a large library of Serbian, Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman
Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to: Governments and dynasties * Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924 * Ottoman Empire, in existence from 1299 to 1922 ** Ottoman dynasty, ruling family of the Ottoman Empire *** Osmanoğlu family, modern members of the family * Ottoman architecture Ethnicities and languages * Ottoman Armenians, the Armenian ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Greeks, the Greek ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Serbs, the Serbian ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Turks, the Turkic ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire ** Ottoman Turkish alphabet ** Ottoman Turkish language, the variety of the Turkish language that was used in the Ottoman Empire Products * Ottoman bed * Ottoman (furniture), padded stool or footstool * Ottoman (textile), fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balko
''Balko'' is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko (played by Jochen Horst until episode 48, then by Bruno Eyron) and his colleague Klaus Krapp (Ludger Pistor). Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas Krapp is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards. Characters Kriminalhauptkommissar Balko Balko, the main character of the series, is an easygoing and friendly police officer not always sticking to working rules. He is a conscientious objector and holds no high school diploma. Most of the time he is surrounded by incompetent colleagues he cannot rely on in cases of emergency. Balko originally comes from Wetter, a small village in the Ennepe Ruhr district, near Dortmund. His parents still live there. So far his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarm Für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei
''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ("Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police") is a long-running, popular German television series about a two-man team of highway police (Autobahnpolizei), originally set in Berlin and since 1999 in the area of Cologne. The series has been broadcast in 120 countries worldwide. The last regular episode "Das Team" aired on 12 August 2021. In an interview, main star Erdoğan Atalay blamed the stoppage on COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the series will return in the form of 90-minute TV movies. Plot The tasks of the Cobra 11 team consist primarily in solving crimes and catching the perpetrators. Typical elements of the action genre are mixed, so that there are regular car crashes, shootouts, explosions and fistfights. These action scenes are elaborately produced in most cases, and appropriately presented in a spectacular way. The high number of unrealistic scenes is a common criticism of the series; for example, large explosions often hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kommissarin Lucas
''Kommissarin Lucas'' is a German series of telefilms set in Regensburg, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany. It streams in some English-language countries as "Detective Ellen Lucas." The series had starred Ulrike Kriener in the title role of Ellen Lucas, Chief Detective Commissioner and Michael Roll as Boris Noethen, First Commissioner. ZDF has been broadcasting the series since March 1, 2003. Each of the episodes are feature length and consequently only two to three are shown per year. Kriener won a Bavarian TV Award in 2005 for her work in this series. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama * ''4 Blocks'' (TNT Serie, 2017–2019) * ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ( RTL, 1996–present) * ''Babylon Berlin'' (Sky 1 & ARD, 2017–presen ... References External links * German crime television series 2003 German television series debuts 2010s German television series Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
