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Metin Erksan (1 January 1929 – 4 August 2012), born İsmail Metin Karamanbey, was a Turkish film director and art historian.
Metin Erksan gained success with films depicting the problems of people from the countryside he adopted from the literature. Susuz Yaz won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin, Germany. Yılanların Öcü (1962) was awarded in 1966 at the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. He was named "Best Director" with his film Kuyu (1968) at the first edition of International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. Along with renowned film director Halit Refiğ, he was credited as the representative of the national cinema in Turkey.
From 1970 on, he directed films aimed for commercial success. In 1974-1975, he filmed five Turkish stories (Hanende Melek by Sabahattin Ali, Geçmiş Zaman Elbiseleri by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Bir İntihar by Samet Ağaoğlu, Müthiş Bir Tren by Sait Faik Abasıyanık and Sazlık by Hulusi Koray) as short films for television. His 1977 film The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1974 horror movie Şeytan is known as the "Turkish Exorcist" due to the movies' similar plots.
He directed 42 films, 2 of which he produced himself; and he wrote the scripts of 29 films. He also starred in the 1998 film Alim Hoca as the title character.
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15 June 1972
Keloglan (Bald Boy) is a dreamer but his only ability is talking, one day The Sultan announces a tournament and best warrior of the land will win his daughter, Keloglan wants to join the tournament to make his dreams come true but didn't know how to fight so he begins a travel to learn fighting from famous warrior Master Ali Cengiz.
01 January 1964
The story of a street singer who inherits a huge fortune from his uncle.
11 February 1961
Türkan and Captain Selim want to get married. Türkan is worried about her father's reaction and wants to wait.
01 January 1969
There is a tense love between Gelincik and Ali, who grow up together. Ali, who can't stand the coming and going of Gelincik, is about to leave the cergi, and he falls into prison because of Gelincik's slander.
13 April 1971
Hicran works as a cloakroom attendant at a nightclub. On New Year's Eve, after a year filled with poverty and hardship, she meets Orhan, a flirtatious young man.
22 December 1960
Seven friends living in the same neighborhood with different aims form a gang to rob gas stations in pursuit of their shared desire for money.
25 March 1962
Poor welder Mehmet and manicurist Nermin, who works in a high society hair salon, fall in love. When Nermin is obsessively haunted by a spoiled rich guy, their unadulterated love is disrupted.
01 January 1977
A wild girl who was raised by bears is found by humans when she rescues an injured man. She is brought to the city against her will, and is put in a stage show.
01 January 1956
Based on the novel by Güzide Sabri, the film tells the story of a woman suffering from a forbidden love.
09 October 1965
On the Princes’ Islands to the south of Istanbul, the days are rainy and full of longing. Poor but proud painter Halil gets a job in one of the island’s villas, where he encounters the photograph of a beautiful woman and falls in love with her image.
07 December 1964
In the mansion of a rich family living in Istanbul, a very valuable necklace is stolen. Suspecting that the thief is someone from inside the house, the owners start to approach the people working in the house with class differences and prejudices.
01 January 1958
The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclosing İzmir, Aydın, Denizli, Muğla and Antalya in modern western Turkey, from 1893 to 1910) whose father, Çakırcalı Koca Ahmet Efe was murdered by an Ottoman sergeant.
16 December 1963
A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
01 January 1967
Fatma, a singer, meets Harun, the owner of a rich and famous record company, and is on the verge of becoming a famous singer with his support.
02 January 1973
The love of a poor girl living in a mountain house in the Taurus Mountains and a city man.
01 January 1974
12 year-old Gul becomes possessed by Satan after experimenting with a Ouija board. A troubled psychiatrist and an experienced exorcist become the girl’s only hope for salvation.
01 January 1966
Upon his return as a millionaire, Ali, with the repression complex he suffered years ago, spreads fear and death around him and takes brutal revenge on the woman he loves.
01 January 1968
Fatma is kidnapped several times by a wild man because she cannot be persuaded to marry. A third attempt at forced submission ends tragically for both, due to the young girl's fatal rebellion.
01 January 1958
Three men live in an abandoned building and try to eke out a living by pooling their meagre resources.
02 January 1977
It’s a psychological love story of a woman who’s about to die from cancer and the killer she hired to kill herself.
01 January 1976
Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother.
01 January 1953
Based on the real life story, the director turned his camera towards the real world of Âşık Veysel, the great poet who wandered around the Anatolian villages.
24 January 1962
The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren.
17 April 2019
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.
01 January 1969
The film tells the love story of Reyhan, who works as a sales assistant at a record company, and Mehmet, a driver.
01 January 1975
No signs of life. A man at the train station cuts his way through the passengers standing still as if time stopped.
04 January 1975
A guy is excited to meet his girlfriend tonight. His friends persuade the man, who does not want to go out until the meeting time, to take him out.
03 January 1975
The man wants to die and the woman wants to be famous. According to the man, there could not be a better plan than the woman killing him.
01 January 1954
The film follows the adventures of a gentleman thief, named Cingöz Recai (Turan Seyfioğlu). With the help of his fiance Jale (Neriman Köksal), he steals from the rich.
01 November 1972
A poor girl condemned to darkness fights for her life against thugs who try to rape her. However, just as her strength is about to give out, a stranger rescues her from rape.
02 January 1975
Hayriye is afraid of the future. Every day, while waiting for his beloved Ali to return from fishing on the long wooden pier, she disappears one day; it is Ali' turn to wait.
25 April 1971
The love story of a girl who won first place in a competition organized by Ses magazine and a journalist who strives to make her famous.
19 December 1962
The film tells the story of Ferit and Tülin, whose paths cross because of a will. Ferit cannot claim the inheritance left to him by his uncle because he cannot prove it.
09 April 1970
Kemal is arrested as a suspect in a murder committed in a hotel room. He is wrongfully sentenced to death.
26 December 1962
The story of a mischievous child who cannot be contained and the two young men who kidnap him.
03 April 1970
The film tells the story of the love between Nevin, a poor seamstress, and Kemal, the son of a wealthy businessman.
05 January 1975
The lawyer falls in love with the singer Melek, who is new to town. He goes to listen to her every evening.
01 January 1961
The story of slum dwellers fighting against developers who want to take their land away from them.
01 January 1969
In the first segment, “Yılın Kadını Değil”, a mother risks her own safety by stabbing her friend to protect her daughter from his dangerous influence.
04 December 1959
Following the death of her taxi driver father, Nebahat has to choose between poverty and being a driver herself.
