
Acting
Fikret Hakan
Born 1934-04-23 · Balikesir, Turkey
Fikret Hakan (born Bumin Gaffar Çitanak; 23 April 1934 – 11 July 2017) was a prolific Turkish film actor and a recipient of the honorary State Artist, a title awarded by the Turkish government. Hakan was born as Bumin Gaffar Çitanak in 1934 to Gaffar and Fatma Belkıs. His mother was a head nurse while his father was a literature teacher. He moved along with his parents as a teenager from Balikesir to Istanbul, and enrolled in Galatasaray High School.[3] Hakan began his artistic career in 1950 as an actor for the Ses Theatre and a contributor to literary magazines. Making his debut in Evli mi bekar mi, a short comedy directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1951, and his feature film debut in 1953 in Köprüalti Çocuklari (Kids Under the Bridge), he has made over 170 appearances in film to date, although his career was at its most productive throughout the 1950s and 1960s through to 1976. He starred in films such as Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) in 1962. Hakan appeared as Colonel Ahmed Elçi along with Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson in the 1970-mpvie You Can't Win 'Em All directed by Peter Collinson.[4] Hakan made four marriages. His spouses were Lale Sarı, Semiramis Pekkan, Neşecan Paşmak and Hümeyra. He had an extramarital daughter Elif Hakan.[5] Lately, he had a life partner Tijen Kılıç.[6] He died on 11 July 2017 at a hospital in Istanbul after being diagnosed with lung cancer.[7] He was interred at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following a memorial ceremony held at Istanbul University's Faculty of Science,[6] and the religious funeral in Afet Yolal Mosque in Levent.
Acting credits
6.3Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......
Borrowed Bride
2005
10.0Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.
Badem Şekeri
1963
NRNükhet and Orhan are two young people who love each other. Orhan's father pressures Orhan to break up with Nükhet, and they separate. Nükhet becomes a famous singer. Orhan marries another woman and has a child. They meet Nükhet on a business trip, and their old love reignites. Nükhet, who wants to become a famous dancer, meets Selim.
Düşkünüm Sana
1983
5.8During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
You Can't Win 'Em All
1970
8.0Turkish adaptation of the tale of Sinbad the Sailor as "Prince Sinbad of the Mountains".
Şehzade Sinbad
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Ölüm Deresi
1956
8.0In Byzantine Empire, a man (hired to repair the caslte) is wrongly accused of killing a young girl and sentenced to death.
The Agony of Black Battal
1968
7.6The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.
Revenge of the Snakes
1962
8.0Story of an old man who is in love with a young girl.
The Stepmother
1971
8.0A series of events unfolding around a wealthy man who pretends to be someone else in order to win the heart of a female singer.
Kısmet
1974
NRRamazan, together with his children, migrate to the big city, Istanbul in order to give them a better life. His daughter Fidan begins working as a clerk at a shop. But she could not adapt to the life of big city. She runs away with the son of the shop owner. Ramazan searches for his daughter, but the big city already has corrupted his daughter
Fidan
1984
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Fedailer Mangası
1972
7.0No synopsis available yet.
İsimsiz Kahramanlar
1964
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Bozkurtlar Geliyor
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kim Bilir
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hora
1976
6.0Sarı Zeybek is a 1953 biopic film written and directed by Münir Hayri Egeli. The film specifically showed the last 300 days of Mustafa Kemal's life and portrayed his ordinary human characteristics rather than his military prowess or political talents.
Sarı Zeybek
1953
9.0Hasan, an engineer who returned to the village from America after years with his child, young and beautiful wife, wants to establish a dairy factory to save the peasant who exploited Salih Aga from poverty. The villagers get money for this job.
Sweating Soil
1981
9.0The film addresses the conflicts and problems between machines and humans in an oil region.
Toprağın Kanı
1966
3.0This 1986 film is a Turkish adaptation of the fairy tale Le Petit Prince, written by French author and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published in 1943. Directed by Remzi Jöntürk, the film features the original story as well as fairy tale Turkish heroes such as Nasrettin Hoca for localization purposes.
Little Prince
1986
9.0Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.
We Hit The Road
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Öldüren Şehir
1971
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Devlerin İntikamı
1967
7.0The story of a doctor who loses his memory in Africa, returns to Istanbul, and falls in love again with his ex-girlfriend, whom he married.
Lejyon Dönüşü
1957
Behind the camera
NRThe film tells the story of a farm owner and his romantic involvement with a woman.
Cennetin Kapısı
1973
NRThe film tells the story of a farm owner and his romantic involvement with a woman.
Cennetin Kapısı
1973
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Sürgün
1976
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Sürgün
1976
6.0The porter Yusuf, whose only dream is to buy a car, is trying to finish primary school and get a driver's license. He deposits the money he earns from portering into the bank and finally saves enough money for a car. He goes to the bank with his daughter to get his account. At that moment, the bank is robbed, the robbers who take Yusuf's money from him kidnap his daughter, rape and torture her. The porter Yusuf, who carries the weight of the world on his back, will not let the robbers get away with what they did.
The Porter
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
En Büyük Patron
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
En Büyük Patron
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
En Büyük Patron
1975