İrfan Tözüm

Directing

İrfan Tözüm

Born 1951-01-01 · Erzurum, Türkiye

İrfan Tözüm was born on January 1, 1951 in Erzurum Tekman. While studying in high school, he took his first step into cinema by working as an assistant to director Duygu Sağıroğlu during summer holidays in 1966 and 1967. He worked as a journalist, director of photo novels and commercial films for many years. In 1984, he made his first feature film "Birkaç Güzel Gün İçin". But even though he left the movie before it was over, his friends who finished it wrote his name. He founded Muhteşem Film in 1986. He shot the movie "Çağdaş Bir Köle" in 1986. Among the films he has directed are successful productions such as Rumuz Goncagül, Devlerin Ölümü, Cazibe Hanımın Gündüz Düşleri, Kız Kulesi Aşıkları, Mum Kokulu Kadınlar.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Avrupalı poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Avrupalı

2007

Roofless Women poster
NR

The story of the intersecting lives and friendships of two women who are completely unlike each other.

Roofless Women

1999

No artwork available
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kız Kulesi Aşıkları

1994

Devlerin Ölümü poster
NR

About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.

Devlerin Ölümü

1990

Fotoğraflar poster
9.0

The film tells the love story of a Turkish girl and a Greek boy who grow up together. Their families' strong opposition to the relationship leads the story to a tragic end.

Fotoğraflar

1989

Rumuz Goncagül poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Rumuz Goncagül

1987

Fazilet poster
6.4

About a woman named Fazilet, who lives with a rich family as a handmaid, undergoing a change of identity in her imaginary world with the frustration brought by her social status.

Fazilet

1990

Çağdaş Bir Köle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Çağdaş Bir Köle

1986

İkili Oyunlar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

İkili Oyunlar

1989

Daydreams of Miss Cazibe poster
5.8

Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spends all her time in this old room, dreaming and fantasising about her ex-lover.

Daydreams of Miss Cazibe

1992

Melodram poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Melodram

1989

Wax-Scented Women poster
3.5

The movie is about the troubles of a group of people living in the same neighborhood. Ihsan has turned in upon himself by the death of his lover and he is waiting for the day when he will die in the mansion where he lives. Fatma sometimes goes to help Ihsan, and she can’t stand against her husband who abuses her daughter. Gulizar lives in the same neighborhood, and she has also become obsessed with her virginity. Gül is also accidentally pregnant and cheated on by her husband. She is also preoccupied with her own problems. The story of these five people struggling with their own problems will intersect around a murder case.

Wax-Scented Women

1996

Bana Şans Dile poster
6.1

Bahadır, an introverted, uncommunicative, clumsy high school student, wakes up one morning and decides to change the world. That morning, on his way to school, Bahadır takes his classmates hostage with a gun he has strapped to his waist, causing them to experience moments of fear. He asks them to recount the memories that have hurt them the most in their lives.

Bana Şans Dile

2002

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

Kurt Kanunu poster
7.0

1926, Turkey. Anatolia is undergoing a difficult and harsh process marked by turmoil and uncertainty. Alongside the decisive and conscious directives to establish the new infrastructure of the new Turkey, there are also examples of resistance that cause an unstoppable reaction and unhealed wounds. Amidst the political backdrop revealed by this process, which operates with the indifference of a broken clock, individual stories continue to unfold with all their human qualities, and personal conflicts persist in highlighting negativity.

Kurt Kanunu

1992

Strawberry Cake poster
8.7

Onur is a pastry owner who passionately loves making pastries. He makes a strawberry cake everyday but he never sells it. He reserves that cake for the woman whom he will fall in love with. One day, famous actress Burcu Burkan visits his pastry shop for shooting a scene. This meeting gives them an opportunity to cross their paths with each other but Burcu has a secret.

Strawberry Cake

2000

Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş poster
8.3

A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight.

Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş

1998

Muhallebicinin Oğlu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Muhallebicinin Oğlu

2000

Birkaç Güzel Gün İçin poster
9.0

It is about a fake marriage between a poor man trying to raise money for his sister's treatment and a millionaire girl. Kemal Polat is a ship engineer working in a small boat workshop. Kemal, who rescued his brother who had disappeared some time ago from the hands of female traffickers, commits a series of murders and is sentenced to death. Kemal's former partner, Haşmet, also died during the events. Haşmet was a famous millionaire and left his inheritance to his daughter Necla on one condition. The condition in the will was that Necla marry Kemal. However, Necla was planning to marry Erol at the time. Kemal considers getting out of the situation by entering into a fake marriage due to his death sentence. However, things do not go as Necla planned, and Kemal escapes the death sentence. The two will be forced to continue the marriage charade for some time.

Birkaç Güzel Gün İçin

1984

Dedelerimi Evlendirirken poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dedelerimi Evlendirirken

2000