Metin Çekmez

Acting

Metin Çekmez

Born 1945-07-26 · Istanbul, Turkey

Acting credits

The Shadow Play poster
7.3

Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.

The Shadow Play

1992

The Frogs poster
5.6

In the half-light of dawn, Halil falls down dead, murdered. His wife, Elmas, cries for justice, but, in fact, there will be no investigation. Life goes on for Elmas: during the day she works in the rice paddies with her little boy and, at night, she goes to catch frogs with the other villagers.

The Frogs

1985

Commissioner Shakespeare poster
5.8

After fainting in a school rehearsal, little Su is diagnosed with leukemia. As a result she is forced to give up the Snow White role she wanted so badly. Police Chief Cemil decides to stage the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his oppressive police station. He hopes to win a TV competition in order to save his dying daughter.

Commissioner Shakespeare

2001

Sis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sis

1987

The Trace poster
6.0

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.

The Trace

1994

The Honest One poster
7.9

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

The Honest One

1984

Sweet Talker poster
6.6

Ferit is a basketball player from Istanbul. One day, at a camp he attends, he meets Emine, a village teacher. They fall in love at first sight and get married, but the spell is broken when Ferit's friends from the city arrive.

Sweet Talker

1972

The Eagle's Nest poster
5.0

A Turkish version of Straw Dogs (1971), set in a small Cypriot village in the days before the 1974 Turkish invasion.

The Eagle's Nest

1974

Atla Gel Şaban poster
7.4

Niyazi is a humble factory worker whose life is turned upside down when he wins the “altılı ganyan” (six-horse accumulator) lottery. Suddenly, everyone from neighbours to total strangers, claiming to be his long-lost relatives, crowds around him hoping for a share of his fortune. Thanks to his quick wit, Niyazi manages to outsmart these opportunists and keep his winnings.

Atla Gel Şaban

1984

The Escape poster
4.7

Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.

The Escape

1984

Yalancı Yarim poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Yalancı Yarim

1973

Boşver Arkadaş poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Boşver Arkadaş

1974