Ömer Kavur

Directing

Ömer Kavur

Born — Died

1944-06-18 — 2005-05-12

Place of birth

Ankara, Türkiye

Known for

Directing

Credits

37 titles

Ömer Kavur (18 June 1944 – 12 May 2005) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed fourteen films between 1974 and 2003. His film, Gece Yolculuğu was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Nine years later, his film Akrebin Yolculuğu was screened in the same section at the 1997 Festival. He died on 12 May 2005, of lymphoma at his home in Teşvikiye, Istanbul, and was buried at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral service held at the Teşvikiye Mosque.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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Halchal

1985

Encounter poster
7.0

The story of a man who believes he's been presented with a new life where he witnesses his son's resurrection.

Encounter

2003

Encounter poster
7.0

The story of a man who believes he's been presented with a new life where he witnesses his son's resurrection.

Encounter

2003

The Secret Face poster
6.7

A woman is searching for a face in photographs taken by a photographer. The face she hopes to meet one day belongs to a watch repairman, but the shop has long since closed.

The Secret Face

1991

A Broken Love Story poster
6.1

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.

A Broken Love Story

1982

A Broken Love Story poster
6.1

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.

A Broken Love Story

1982

A Broken Love Story poster
6.1

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.

A Broken Love Story

1982

Journey on a Clock Hand poster
5.8

A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.

Journey on a Clock Hand

1997

Journey on a Clock Hand poster
5.8

A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.

Journey on a Clock Hand

1997

Motherland Hotel poster
6.8

Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.

Motherland Hotel

1987

Motherland Hotel poster
6.8

Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.

Motherland Hotel

1987

Aşk Üzerine Söylenmemiş Her Şey poster
10.0

Five short films by five directors based on themes of love and tolerance, each independent of the other. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Efes Pilsen. The collection includes five short films: Ömer Kavur's "The Meeting," İrfan Tözüm's "Monte Cristo," Yusuf Kurçenli's "Because I Love Her," Erden Kıral's "Moon Stories," and Zeki Ökten's "Always the Same."

Aşk Üzerine Söylenmemiş Her Şey

1995

Yusuf and Kenan poster
7.4

When their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the streetboys, and Yusuf turns to crime although Kenan wants to learn a trade.

Yusuf and Kenan

1979

Yusuf and Kenan poster
7.4

When their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the streetboys, and Yusuf turns to crime although Kenan wants to learn a trade.

Yusuf and Kenan

1979

Yusuf and Kenan poster
7.4

When their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the streetboys, and Yusuf turns to crime although Kenan wants to learn a trade.

Yusuf and Kenan

1979

Night Journey poster
6.7

A confused script writer takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church at a remote village while looking for locations for his next film.

Night Journey

1987

Night Journey poster
6.7

A confused script writer takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church at a remote village while looking for locations for his next film.

Night Journey

1987

I Love You poster
NR

As a coincidence, Murat founds his ex-love Selma after several years in his town. He would like to make up and regain her trust and love. However Selma already have a different life style.

I Love You

1983

The Lake poster
6.3

Nalan reminds Murat of his wife who died in the lake. After a while, Murat convinces himself that Nalan is his dead wife, Sabiha. Murat loses his sense of reality when a new man gets involved.

The Lake

1982

The Lake poster
6.3

Nalan reminds Murat of his wife who died in the lake. After a while, Murat convinces himself that Nalan is his dead wife, Sabiha. Murat loses his sense of reality when a new man gets involved.

The Lake

1982

A Sip of Love poster
6.6

Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.

A Sip of Love

1984

Oh Beautiful Istanbul poster
6.2

Kamil, who earns his living as a long-distance truck driver, falls in love with Cevahir, whom he meets at a brothel he visits with his friends, and rents a house for her. Their goal is to get married. However, their financial situation is not sufficient for such a marriage. Kamil accepts a friend's offer to engage in smuggling in order to build a better life.

Oh Beautiful Istanbul

1981

Oh Beautiful Istanbul poster
6.2

Kamil, who earns his living as a long-distance truck driver, falls in love with Cevahir, whom he meets at a brothel he visits with his friends, and rents a house for her. Their goal is to get married. However, their financial situation is not sufficient for such a marriage. Kamil accepts a friend's offer to engage in smuggling in order to build a better life.

Oh Beautiful Istanbul

1981

Oh Beautiful Istanbul poster
6.2

Kamil, who earns his living as a long-distance truck driver, falls in love with Cevahir, whom he meets at a brothel he visits with his friends, and rents a house for her. Their goal is to get married. However, their financial situation is not sufficient for such a marriage. Kamil accepts a friend's offer to engage in smuggling in order to build a better life.

Oh Beautiful Istanbul

1981

Blind Man's Bluff poster
6.0

Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.

Blind Man's Bluff

1985

Blind Man's Bluff poster
6.0

Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.

Blind Man's Bluff

1985

Blind Man's Bluff poster
6.0

Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.

Blind Man's Bluff

1985

Vasfiye Is Her Name poster
7.0

The story of a provincial woman named Vasfiye, whose life passed changing hands and drifting between men in Aegean towns, is told by different narrators. The story changes every time the narrator changes. However, it is not known which story is the truth.

Vasfiye Is Her Name

1985

The House of Angels poster
5.3

The movie tells the desperate adventure of two people, Arzuhan and Ahmet, who are passionately in love in South-Eastern Turkey.

The House of Angels

2000

Desperate Road poster
5.6

The film tells the story of Hasan, a truck driver. Hasan returns to Turkey from Germany after many years. On his return, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Sabahat and his best friend Yavuz are married. Yavuz is involved in illegal business causing his family to get mixed up.

Desperate Road

1985

Desperate Road poster
5.6

The film tells the story of Hasan, a truck driver. Hasan returns to Turkey from Germany after many years. On his return, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Sabahat and his best friend Yavuz are married. Yavuz is involved in illegal business causing his family to get mixed up.

Desperate Road

1985

Desperate Road poster
5.6

The film tells the story of Hasan, a truck driver. Hasan returns to Turkey from Germany after many years. On his return, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Sabahat and his best friend Yavuz are married. Yavuz is involved in illegal business causing his family to get mixed up.

Desperate Road

1985

The Suicide poster
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The Suicide

1971

Emine, The Leaning One poster
6.2

Ömer Kavur's first film Yatik Emine (Emine, The Leaning One), relates the story, set in the years of World War I, of a prostitute exiled in a small town.

Emine, The Leaning One

1975

Emine, The Leaning One poster
6.2

Ömer Kavur's first film Yatik Emine (Emine, The Leaning One), relates the story, set in the years of World War I, of a prostitute exiled in a small town.

Emine, The Leaning One

1975

The Porter poster
NR

During the making of Kavur, filmmaker Fırat Özeler found two unknown early exercises by the Turkish grandmaster, Ömer Kavur. He integrated one into his biographical film essay. The second, The Porter, we now proudly present as a world premiere!

The Porter

1971