
Acting
Engin Alpateş
Born 1978-01-01 · Mersin, Türkiye
Acting credits
7.7Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.
The Storm
2008
6.2Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
The Bank of Broken Hearts
2017
5.7In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.
The Messenger
2008
6.5Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. Everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighbourhood.
Ali's Eight Days
2009
NRThis is the Black Sea, where love, hate, joy, and passion are experienced in the most absurd way. The efforts of women, each of whom is a stubborn goat, to bring men to their knees, and the efforts of men to besiege women and break their resistance.
Bizum Hoca 2
2021
7.4A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ends up in the seedier parts of the city. …
Lovelorn
2005
7.4A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ends up in the seedier parts of the city. …
Lovelorn
2005
4.7What if a revolution will happen in Turkey? "After Revolution" is discussing ordinary, daily life just after socialist revolution in Turkey.
After the Revolution
2011
5.5Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.
The Extreme Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
2011