Erol Batıbeki

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Erol Batıbeki

Born 1932-03-19 · Mersin, Türkiye

Acting credits

Remedy poster
6.0

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.

Remedy

1983

The Girl with the Red Scarf poster
7.7

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

The Girl with the Red Scarf

1977

We Hit The Road poster
9.0

Laborers 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

İşte Hayat poster
7.1

The film tells the love story of a girl who wants to be famous and the television presenter she kidnaps. Ayşe is a poor girl who wants to be an actress. She and her mother Makbule make a plan to kidnap television presenter Uğur Dündar. Their goal is for Uğur to cast Ayşe in a film. To this end, they take inappropriate photos of Ayşe and use them to threaten Uğur. When the photographer who develops the films Makbule took recognizes Uğur, the police find him. Uğur also tries to make Ayşe an actress. However, as time goes on, Ayşe begins to realize she has no talent for it.

İşte Hayat

1975

Yanaşma poster
7.8

Memo is a young man who serves the village chief in his house. The chief took him into his service as a servant at a young age. The chief's daughter, Cano, falls in love with Memo. Memo also has feelings for Cano. However, because he is afraid of the chief, he initially runs away from this love. He is hopeless about the future. He is aware that he is only a servant.

Yanaşma

1973

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema poster
7.1

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema

2019

Male and Female poster
3.7

Police officer Burhan arrests Recep, a member of a drug trafficking gang. Recep is released after a false witness contradicts Burhan’s evidence, leading to Burhan’s reassignment to a small village. There, he becomes romantically involved with Sevtap, a belly dancer he knew from the capital.

Male and Female

1966