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Yazı Tura
''Toss-Up'' ( tr, Yazı Tura) is a 2004 Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Uğur Yücel, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Olgun Şimşek as two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , won a record 11 awards at the 41st Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival including the Golden Orange for Best Film. Plot Two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities. Cevher (nicknamed "the Ghost") has lost his hearing while Rıdvan (nicknamed "the Devil") has lost a leg. Both are emotionally and physically scarred and find difficulties in adjusting to normal civilian life. Cast * Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (Cevher) * Olgun Şimşek (Rıdvan) * Bahri Beyat (Cemil Sandalcılar / Father Cemil) * Engin Günaydın (Sencer) * Seda Akman (Nazan) * Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı (Teoman) * Erkan Can (Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uğur Yücel
Uğur Yücel (born 26 May 1957) is a Turkish film actor, producer and director. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory (İstanbul Belediye Konservatuarı Tiyatro Bölümü). He took part in several plays between 1975 and 1984 in Kenter Tiyatrosu (Kenter Theatre), Tef Kabare Theatre, Dormen Theatre, and Şan Müzikholü. He was noticed for his roles in ''Selamsız Bandosu'' (1987) and '' Muhsin Bey'' (1987), then gained mainstream success when he took part in '' Eşkıya'' (1996). Filmography Actor * 1984 – ''Fahriye Abla'' * 1985 – ''Aşık Oldum'' * 1986 – ''Teyzem'' * 1986 – ''Milyarder'' * 1987 – ''Selamsız Bandosu'' * 1987 – '' Muhsin Bey'' * 1988 – '' Arabesk'' * 1994 – ''Aziz Ahmet'' * 1996 – '' Eşkıya'' * 2000 – ''Balalayka'' * 2001 – ''Karanlıkta Koşanlar'' * 2003 – ''Alacakaranlık'' * 2005 – ''Hırsız Polis'' * 2008 – '' New York, I Love You'' * 2008 – ''Canım Ailem'' * 2009 – '' Soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seda Akman
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Films Set In Turkey
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Films
2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. ''Shrek 2'' was the year's top-grossing film, and '' Million Dollar Baby'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy described 2004 as "a banner year for actors, particularly men." He went on to emphasize, "I can't think of another year in which there were so many good performances, in every genre. It was a year in which we saw the entire spectrum of demographics displayed on the big screen, from vet actors such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, to seniors such as Pacino, De Niro, and Hoffman, to newcomers such as Topher Grace. As always, though, the center of the male acting pyramid is occupied by actors in their forties and fifties, such as Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Kevin Kline, Don Cheadle, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Drama Films
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( tr, Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali), known for a few years from 2015 as Antalya International Film Festival, is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, and is the second most important film festival in Turkey. Since 2009, the event, which takes place in the autumn months at the Antalya Cultural Center (Antalya Kültür Merkezi, AKM), has been organised solely by the Antalya Foundation for Culture and Arts (Antalya Kültür Sanat Vakfı, AKSAV) and has included an international section within the main body of the festival. History Cultural activities like concerts and theatre plays, which started to take place in the 1950s at the historical Aspendos Amphitheatre, formed the cornerstone of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival of today. These events held in the summer months under the honorary patronage of Dr. Avni Tolunay, found ever increasing interest from people and became traditional at the beginning of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haldun Boysan
Haldun Boysan (6 July 1958 – 31 August 2020) was a Turkish actor. One of his most notable works was in ''Valley of the Wolves'' as Tombalacı Mehmet. Death Boysan died of heart attack on 31 August 2020 in his hotel room in Ürgüp district of Nevşehir Nevşehir (from the Persian compound ''Now-shahr'' meaning "new city"), formerly Neapolis (Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις) and Muşkara, is a largely modern city and the capital district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia Region of ... at age of 62, during his stay in the city for the shooting of '' Maria ile Mustafa''. He was buried at Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara. Selected filmography References External links * 1958 births 2020 deaths People from Ankara Turkish male film actors Turkish male television actors Burials at Karşıyaka Cemetery, Ankara {{Turkey-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ülkü Duru
Ülkü (literally: "ideal") is a Turkish surname and a unisex given name and may refer to: ;Given name * Ülkü Adatepe (1932–2012), youngest adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk * Ülkü Azrak (1933–2020), Turkish lawyer * Ülkü Tamer (1937-2018), Turkish poet * Ülkü Uludoğan (born 1940), Turkish artist ;Surname * Mehmet Ülkü (1877–1946), Turkish businessman and politician * Semra Ülkü, Turkish educator See also * ''Ülkü (magazine) ''Ülkü'' (Turkish language, Turkish: ''The Ideal'') was a magazine which existed between 1933 and 1950 and which was one of seventy-five official media outlets of the Halkevleri, People's Houses, cultural institutions started in 1932 as an enli ...'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulku Turkish-language surnames Turkish unisex given names Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şinasi Yurtsever
Şinasi is the Turkish spelling of the Persian name (شناسی), also transliterated as ''Shinasi''. Today, it is commonly used as a male given name. Given name * İbrahim Şinasi (1826–1871), Ottoman author, playwright, and journalist * Şinasi Bozatlı (born 1962), Turkish painter and sculptor Surname * Morris Schinasi (1855–1928), American tobacco industrialist of Ottoman origin * Altina Schinasi Altina Schinasi (August 4, 1907 – August 19, 1999) was an American sculptor, filmmaker, actress, entrepreneur, window dresser, designer, and inventor. She was known for designing what she called the "Harlequin eyeglass frame", popularly known ... (1907–1999), American artist, entrepreneur, and inventor, daughter of Morris Places * Şinasi Sahnesi, theatre in Ankara, Turkey, named after İbrahim Şinasi {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinasi Turkish masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levent Can
Levent is a neighbourhood and one of the main business districts of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European side of the city. It is a part of the municipality of Beşiktaş and is situated to the north of the Golden Horn, at the western shore of the Bosphorus strait. Levent, together with nearby Maslak, is one of the main business districts on the European side of the city, where numerous skyscraper projects are currently under construction or in the planning phase. One of the modern skyline clusters of the city is located here, hidden behind the hills of the Bosphorus and not disturbing the atmosphere of the Constantinople, historical peninsula of Istanbul, which is at quite a distance. The tallest skyscraper in Levent is the 54-floor Istanbul Sapphire, which has a roof height of 238 metres (261 metres including its spire). It was Istanbul's and Turkey's tallest skyscraper between 2010 and 2016 — as of 2020, it is the 4th tallest skyscraper in Istanbul and Turkey, behin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
