Movies: Tarık Akan

Tomboy Zehra helps Omer to get with the girl he is madly in love with after saving him from a suicide attempt but finds herself also falling for him....

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey....

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later....

A genetic narrator who lovingly loves his friend's wife tells the story....

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A young bride wows to take revenge on her father's killers....

In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and durin...

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