Taies Farzan

Acting

Taies Farzan

Place of birth

Teheran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Taies Farzan (born 1974 in Tehran) is a Turkish-German-Iranian actress, film director, and producer. Taies Farzan was born in Iran, spent part of her childhood in Turkey, and moved to Germany in 1990, where she completed her *Abitur* (secondary school graduation) in 1993. She received her acting training through various seminars, drama schools, and workshops in Germany and Turkey. Subsequently, she worked as a stage, film, and television actress, as well as a voice actress for radio dramas, across several countries and languages. Farzan made her feature film debut in 2005 in Yılmaz Arslan’s drama *Fatricide – Brudermord*. She also garnered international attention as a director with her sho…

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Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Argo poster
7.3

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Argo

2012

Chaplin of the Mountains poster
5.0

A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide. On her journey she meets two American film students who are traveling to remote villages screening Charlie Chaplin films. They decide to help her search, an undertaking that brings them to the war-weary Mount Qandil, dubbed by the locals the Kurdish Bermuda Triangle, along the Iraqi-Turkish-Iranian borders.

Chaplin of the Mountains

2013

Sandstern poster
5.3

Set in West Germany in the 1980s, the tormented destiny of a young Turk confronted with uprooting and illness...

Sandstern

2018

Hitler's Grave poster
NR

A young Islamic woman, whose brother is tortured to death during the Iranian elections, goes to Berlin to fulfill two promises made to her brother on his deathbed.

Hitler's Grave

2011

O.H.A: In Search of Oflu Hodja poster
NR

Ali Baltaoglu, a construction magnate with high-fying ambitions and deep ties with the government who dreams of carrying Europe’s Alps to the Black Sea in a Dubai-like metropolitan city concept, sponsors three guys -who are not even in the flm business- to flm a documentary about the urban legends of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Ali Baltaoglu plans to use the documentary as a covert advertisement and propaganda tool for the beneft of his mountain city project 'Kackar MegaMount 2023' which was planned to be built within Kackar Mountains National Park. Joined by a reticent driver who cannot drive, they set out to locate the legendary Swearing Ofu Hodja, a saintly and foul-mouthed imam with supernatural powers who works miracles, supports nuclear fusion, and condemns all kinds of authority. The team tumbles through a series of misadventures brought on them by the mysterious hodja, changing their lives forever in this war between matter and meaning.

O.H.A: In Search of Oflu Hodja

2014

Adam ve Çocuk poster
NR

An out-of-pocket friendship between a criminal who escapes from justice and a child he has to take hostage.

Adam ve Çocuk

2016

River Inside Me poster
3.3

Halis is in his 40s, he is one of his own, who makes a living by his own katmer shop. He and his wife, Ayla, have had the coldness for years now. Probably the only common points of Halis and Ayla are their daughters. Halis, who is also a municipal councilor, takes Meznun one day to run next to the katmer shop. Grateful to Halis for recruiting him in the beginning, Meznun crumbles the family's tense but obscure mundane lives after a while. The privacy is up and the family is faced with the realities that are known but are afraid to speak ...

River Inside Me

2011

2000s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera