Lale Mansur

Acting

Lale Mansur

Born 1956-01-01 · Istanbul, Turkey

Sanat yaşamına İstanbul devlet Opera ve Balesi’nde başlayan Lale Mansur, burada baş balerin olarak uzun yıllar görev yaptı. Oyunculuğa 1992 yılında BBC Televizyonu tarafından çekilen ve Yaşar Kemal’in yaşamını konu alan yönetmenliğini James Runcie’nin üstlendiği belgesel yapım ‘Childhood’ ile başladı. Bu sıralarda Los Angeles’da Eric Morris Actors Workshop’ta oyunculuk, İstanbul’da diksiyon eğitimi aldı. 1992’de ilk uzun metrajlı filmi Atıf Yılmaz’ın yönettiği ‘Düş Gezginleri’ ile Antalya Film Festivali’nde ‘En İyi Kadın Oyuncu’ dalında Altın Portakal kazandı. 1993’de Ersin Pertan’ın ‘Tersine Dünya’, Şerif Gören’in ‘Amerikalı’, 1995’de Ömer Kavur’un ‘Buluşma’, ‘Cemile’, 1997’de Atıf Yılmaz’ın ‘Nihavend Mucize’ adlı filmlerinde rol aldı. Şu anda Hatırla Sevgili'de Yasemin'in annesi Nezahat rolünde oynamaktadır.

Acting credits

Tersine Dünya poster
5.6

The film is set in a world where traditional gender roles between women and men are reversed. Bitirim Leyla and Sarı Leman are the tough, street-smart women of their neighborhood. While Leman works in a factory, Leyla makes a living through small-time scams on the streets. Leyla cheats on her husband with a young man from the neighborhood, while Leman spends her time with male prostitutes. However, the lifestyle they lead eventually draws both women into crime.

Tersine Dünya

1994

Walking After Midnight poster
4.3

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

Walking After Midnight

1992

Love in Another Language poster
7.1

Onur, who has been deaf since birth, works as a librarian. His father had left him and his mother when he was seven, and Onur has always blamed himself for this. Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks of the people around him. At his friend Vedat's engagement party, he meets Zeynep, who later finds out about Onur's hearing disability, but is not bothered by it. She is forced by her overbearing father to leave home and gets a job at a call-center. Having to speak on the phone all day to people she doesn't know, Zeynep finds peace with Onur, who she communicates with perfectly without speaking...

Love in Another Language

2009

Listen from the Nay: Separations poster
3.7

The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the efforts of a handful of people seeking peace in Istanbul in the days leading up to the 1798 Ottoman-French war. The dervish, who is responsible for keeping the Mevlevi records, is also in the service of Nuri Dede Efendi, a former Ottoman pasha. Dede Efendi and some of his old friends, who are French diplomats, are trying to prevent the impending war. This unofficial effort is being carried out at Sahilsaray, which belongs to Beyhan Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III. A bond develops between Halil, the court physician accompanying Dede Efendi during the diplomatic negotiations, and Gülnihal Kalfa, Beyhan Sultan's assistant. The young dervish who accompanies Dede Efendi to Sahilsaray brings a notebook filled with pages that blend the story he has witnessed in its entirety with passages reflecting the teachings of Mevlana...

Listen from the Nay: Separations

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sevdiğim İnsanlar

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

Roofless Women poster
NR

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

Roofless Women

1999

Misafir poster
2.5

On his first night back in his hometown of Kütahya after living in Paris for many years, Oktay is once again confronted with the reasons that have kept him away from home for so long. As he is about to leave the city again, he happens to walk into the home of a distant relative and meets Ayşe. Ayşe is a rural woman who is unhappy in her marriage and cannot fit into the small world confined by four walls. Oktay and Ayşe find happiness in each other after many years. The only way to sustain their happiness is for Ayşe to go to Paris with Oktay. Ayşe, perhaps for the first time, is faced with the opportunity to be happy and must choose between everything she knows as life. Ayşe’s decision will also determine whether Oktay, who has never felt at home anywhere, will end his “guest” status in his own life.

Misafir

2011

Nihavend Mucize poster
4.9

Suzan died 25 years ago. But after seeing his son's loneliness and despair in the world, he had to return to the world at the end of these 25 years. The world he left is completely different from the world he finds. Suzan suffers from a deep adaptation to this change. After a while, he realizes that he must adopt such a fit.

Nihavend Mucize

1997

Apollon by Day Athena by Night poster
5.5

Raised as an orphan, Defne, a cranky newbie psychic, finds herself in the ancient town of Side (Antalya), accompanied by the ghosts of a Marxist revolutionary, a prostitute and a primeval priestess; as she searches for her long lost mother.

Apollon by Day Athena by Night

2024

Atıf Hoca En Çok Kadınları Sevdi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Atıf Hoca En Çok Kadınları Sevdi

Bliss poster
7.0

A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.

Bliss

2007

Umut Yarına Kaldı poster
NR

A director's filmmaking process; friendships of the director, who has lost hope in life, with the tenants living in the same house.

Umut Yarına Kaldı

1988

Amerikalı poster
5.2

Revenge story in Istanbul. After being sent to prison, Şeref manages to escape and flee to the United States. Over the next twenty years, he works tirelessly and becomes a billionaire. With his vast fortune, he returns to Turkey after twenty years, driven by his longing for his homeland and his former lover. However, time has passed differently in Turkey than it has in America... Will Şeref, who returns to his country and loved ones with curiosity, be able to adapt to this change?

Amerikalı

1993

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

O da Beni Seviyor poster
8.0

Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican.

O da Beni Seviyor

2001

Miracle poster
3.0

After losing her home and all that she's known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul.

Miracle

2022