İzzet Günay
Birthday: Born in 1934-08-21 in Üsküdar, İstanbul
Deathday: Alive
Izzet Günay was born on August 21, 1934 in Istanbul, Turkey. He is an actor, known for My Prostitute Love (1968), This Is How Destiny Wanted (1968) and Kezban in Paris (1971).
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Şahsiyet
Character: Albay
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years....
Aşka Sürgün
Character: Hasan Azizoğlu
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Altın Kelebek Ödülleri
Character: Self - Winner
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Altın Koza
Character: Nominee
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Movie Credits
Garibanlar Mahallesi
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Unutulmayanlar
Character: İzzet
Fahrettin, Ekrem, Fikret, İzzet, Nejat, Orhan and Eşref work as truck drivers for a company. Guns are loaded into their trucks without their knowledge. They are smuggling weapons without their knowledge. The police seize the trucks in a raid. The drivers, who are informed about the raid via radio, manage to escape at the last moment. In order to prove their innocence, they decide to find the company owner, Lebanese Manukyan. On their journey, they will also come to terms with their past....
Death Toll
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An honest cop is trying to rescue a girl who is stuck in decadence and prostitution....
The Broken Disk
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In this film, the famous singer/composer Zeki Müren plays himself. His flamboyant and luxurious life takes a tragic turn when he is poisoned, loses his voice and then gets framed for the killing that he doesn't actually carry out....
The Bomb Girl
Character: Erol
Erol, who is rescued by the boss of a casino, meets a world he does not know when Kenan offers him a job. Erol and Kenan, who became friends in a short time, broke up for an unexpected reason....
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
Character: Self
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....
The Adventure Woman
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The film is about the adventure and drama-filled lives of a handsome man who cross paths with a beautiful woman....
Kefenin Cebi Yok
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Afili Delikanlılar
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The story of two friends, a gambler and a womanizer, who can't seem to escape their troubles....
Kumarbaz
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The story of a gambler and a penniless young man, and the millionaire girl he falls in love with....
Tatlı Sert
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Ali Cengiz Oyunu
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The story of two young men who resemble each other like two peas in a pod, who switch places as a result of a mix-up....
End of the Road
Character: Kamal
A youth joins a gang to help his family. After the gang robs a supermarket, they flee in a car, which later breaks down. With the police on their trail, the gang enters a prominent lawman's home, threatening him and his family and trying to hide their loot there, but things get out of hand as another escaped gang joins them....
You Can Do It, My Dear!
Character: Self
Throughout his impressive acting career, Haldun Dormen inspired and encouraged his theater students to work hard and follow their dreams....
The Crying Woman
Character: Osman
Osman, who opposes his father for the woman he loves, starts preparations for marriage with Sükran. Meanwhile, Sükran learns a great secret about her mother, and is abandoned by Osman when the secret is revealed....
Güngörmüşler
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İncili Çavuş
Character: Zehir Ali
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Çifte Nikâh
Character: Metin
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Renkli Dünya
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The film tells the story of a young girl who secretly becomes an actress behind her brother's back. Mehmet runs a coffee house in one of Istanbul's suburbs. Mehmet, who is engaged to Ayşe, the daughter of grocer Hatice, cannot manage to come up with the required dowry. Mehmet's mother, Fatma, works as a seamstress at a theater. Mehmet's sister, Zeynep, decides to help her brother collect the dowry. To do so, she starts working at the theater with her mother. At that time, a big musical is being ...
Suya Düşen Hayal
Character: Burhan Tayfuroğlu
The story of a journalist trying to solve a murder case....
Tığ Gibi Delikanlı
Character: Hilton Ali
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Asfalt Rıza
Character: Asfalt Rıza
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Kanli Mezar
Character: Murat
The film tells the story of archaeologist Yılmaz, Murat, and Zeynep's fight against an international gang involved in the smuggling of historical artifacts....
Mr E.
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A television news anchorman, İsmet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women....
Bebek Gibi Maşallah
Character: Kemal
Leyla wants to marry her boyfriend Nihat. However, her uncle Feyzullah opposes this. Some time later, Feyzullah dies and leaves his inheritance to Leyla. However, in order to receive the inheritance, she must marry someone other than Nihat. Nihat devises a plan. He arranges for Leyla to marry Kemal, a prisoner who is scheduled to be executed soon. However, things will not go as Nihat had planned....
Duyduk Duymadık Demeyin
Character: Osman
Osman is an accountant with a quiet life and a happy marriage. The partners of the company he works for fall out and decide to split up. During this process, they entrust the company's money to Osman, whom they trust implicitly. After hiding the cash box somewhere, Osman is involved in a traffic accident. Karadana, the thug who takes Osman to the hospital, gives him blood. Due to the accident, Osman suffers from memory loss and is completely transformed because of Karadana's blood....
Crossroads
Character: Bilal
The paths of Feyza and Bilal, who are from different worlds, cross again after years....
Nebahat The Driver
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Having to bring money to her home after her father's death, Nebahat starts working as a driver, a completely male-dominated job....
Cesur Kabadayı
Character: Murat
Murat is disowned by his father because of a trap set by his stepmother. One day, he rescues a girl named Kezban from bandits. From Kezban, he learns about the oppression Celal Ağa has inflicted on the villagers. Settling in one of the abandoned houses in the village, Murat engages in a struggle with the agha's men. It becomes clear that Murat's sole purpose is not to protect the villagers from the agha when he confronts Celal Ağa. The scar on the agha's face will remind Murat of the oath of rev...
Kalbimdeki Yabancı
Character: Osman / Beyefendi
Osman has come to Istanbul to find work. However, he returns empty-handed from every place he applies to. Finally, one day his luck changes. He encounters a man who looks exactly like him. The wealthy gentleman is fleeing from the men who are after him. Switching places with Osman will save his life. The sharp young man accepts the offer. That evening, he plans to return the gentleman's clothes and wallet and go his own way. However, an unexpected accident throws his plans into disarray. The man...
My Prostitute Love
Character: Halil
Halil goes to a bar with his friends and meets Sabiha, a prostitute, and they fall in love. Two lovers want to escape their past and live together. However, Sabiha knows little about Halil's life, and she has to face some facts....
Dolmus Driver
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Directed by Alp Zeki Heper....
Sefiller
Character: Nazım
Zafer Davutoglu's 1967 adaptation of Hugo's novel Les Misérables set in Turkey....
Namus Kanla Yazılır
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Two brothers meet again after many years....
Tehlikeli Oyun
Character: Ahmet
Ahmet, a taxi driver, meets businessman Ekrem Kirişçi. He begins working as his personal driver. He falls in love with Ayşe, a maid who works in a mansion near Ekrem Bey's house. They meet by chance. However, Ayşe mistakenly believes that Ahmet is the businessman Ekrem. Ahmet cannot reveal the truth to Ayşe. One day, Ekrem Bey and Ahmet go on a business trip. Ahmet writes letters to Ayşe using Ekrem Bey's name. The letters Ahmet writes will get Ekrem Bey into trouble....
The Evening Sun
Character: Nazmi
Nazmi, who was an officer in the military, was injured in the Korean War and retired. He wants to spend the rest of his life on a farm away from city life and settles with his wife on the farm. But the arrival of Jülide to the farm changes all the balances....
Şeker Hafiye
Character: Osman
Osman is about to marry his boss's daughter, Fatma. He swears solemnly that he will not flirt with other women. Moreover, his boss has vowed to shoot him if such a thing happens. However, due to a major stroke of bad luck, the police need Osman to solve an important case. At first, the young man refuses the offer. But when the women he has had relationships with in the past begin to be killed one by one, he is forced to cooperate. He must find a woman who is the sole heir to a large inheritance ...
Cici Kızlar
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Elveda Sevgilim
Character: Kemal Selimoğlu
Nuri, from the Selimoğulları family, kills Turgut, from the Kadiroğulları family. However, he is saved from prison thanks to his relatives who witnessed the crime. Both families have children who have been educated abroad. Dr. Osman, from the Kadiroğulları family, is in love with his uncle's daughter, Türkan. However, Türkan sees him as an older brother. Kemal, an engineer from the Selimoğulları family, also loves Türkan. The three young people begin to fight in their own way to resolve the bloo...
Nazar Değmez İnşallah
Character: Saim
Saim and Nazım, who are musicians, travel by ship to Istanbul. On board, they rescue a woman named Belma who is about to commit suicide. Belma was raised by her step-aunt after being left orphaned. Now her step-aunt is taking her to Istanbul to marry her off to her brother. Belma does not want to marry a man she does not love, but she cannot defy her aunt. Therefore, Saim and Nazım will try to prevent the wedding....
The Bread Seller Woman
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Based on Xavier de Montépin's story, the film tells the story of a widow wrongly accused of arson....
Barut Fıçısı
Character: Osman
Osman is the son of factory owner Rüknettin Bey. Rüknettin Bey started his business career as a traveling salesman and quickly rose to become one of the wealthiest men in the country. His wife Bedia aims to take control of the entire fortune by marrying their son Osman to a girl from her own family. Fed up with his son Osman's womanizing ways, Rüknettin Bey tells him to choose the girl he wants to marry within a month. While the girls from Bedia's family circle around Osman, Rüknettin Bey's niec...
Osman Killed Me
Character: Filinta Osman
After the death of a wealhty man, family members are gather in the mansion to receive the hereditary share. The police enters the circuit after some mysterious deaths in the mansion....
Anasının Kuzusu
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The story of a young civil servant who grew up under his mother's influence....
Acemi Çapkın
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The film tells the story of Sıtkı Bey, who lives a different life during the day and at night. Sıtkı Bey, who owns a typing course, is a quiet and cold man who is not interested in women. This attitude also affects his students. However, Sıtkı Bey takes on a different character at night. He does not remember what he does at night during the day. Due to his nocturnal escapades, he gains many enemies. When his escapades become known, the typing course will also be in danger....
Anadolu Çocuğu
Character: Eşrefpaşalı Osman
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Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür
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Turkish adaptation of Alejandro Casona's classic play Los Árboles Mueren De Pie....
Kimse Fatma Gibi Öpemez
Character: Kemal
On the day Fatma returns from Europe, she learns that she has inherited something from her mother. Her mother had been defrauding her uncle for years, using the excuse that she had a disabled daughter. Her uncle had left his inheritance to his disabled niece. In order to claim the inheritance, Fatma must pretend to be disabled. For this purpose, lawyer Kemal will monitor Fatma for a while. However, this situation will lead to the beginning of a romance between Fatma and Kemal....
Tophaneli Osman
Character: Osman / Murat
Before his death, Esad Bey decides to announce his will. He calls all his relatives to his house. He leaves most of his inheritance to his stepson Murat and the rest to his relatives. Shortly thereafter, Esad Bey is murdered. Murat is framed for the crime and sent to prison. Murat, who is innocent, will discover the identity of the killer thanks to Tophaneli Osman, whom he meets in prison....
Öpüşmek Yasak
Character: Kaya
Burhan and Kemal are minibus drivers in Şile. These drivers, who never get along, decide to buy new minibuses. Burhan orders from his sons Kaya and Naci, who are studying in Istanbul. Kemal also orders from his daughters Oya and Sema in Istanbul. With their new minibuses, a fierce competition will begin between the two drivers....
Varan Biiir
Character: Hüseyin
Hüseyin goes to a bar to have a drink. There is no one else inside except for a drunk customer. A mysterious man arrives shortly after, looking for a woman with green eyes and a straw hat. Before Hüseyin has a chance to say that there is no such person, the drunk customer pulls out a gun and shoots the man. Hüseyin suddenly finds himself in the middle of a murder case. Later that night, when he goes outside, he happens to come across the woman described. Her name is Perihan. At first, she denies...
Fıstık Gibi Maşallah
Character: Naci
Turkish version of the Billy Wilder film "Some Like it Hot"....
Kavga Var
Character: Remzi
Remzi is a kind-hearted but quarrelsome man who cannot tolerate injustice. Ayten is Recep's only daughter. Recep is a quarrelsome, tough man like Remzi. One day, Recep and Remzi come face to face and get into a fight. Through this incident, Remzi meets Ayten and falls in love with her. Ayten decides to enter a beauty pageant out of defiance toward her friend. Remzi soon discovers that the organizers of the pageant are fraudsters. However, convincing Ayten to change her mind will not be easy....
The Stolen Love
Character: Ali
The two young people, who started to get to know each other, decide to meet face to face after long letters. The woman sends her sister instead of herself....
Fatoş'un Bebekleri
Character: Haşmet
Suat and Haşmet are business partners. Suat is a conservative man and the president of the Association for the Protection, Promotion, and Elevation of Morality. His wife, Fatoş, makes fun of her husband's seriousness and his work. Suat's partner, Haşmet, is a womanizer. Suat goes on a business trip. During this time, Haşmet's business meeting at a nightclub turns into a dinner alone with Fatoş. However, when Suat learns that his wife is having dinner alone with someone, he hires "the sleuth with...
Hop Dedik
Character: Hüseyin
After drinking excessively at the nightclub, Ferit takes someone else's coat instead of his own. When he realizes that the coat does not belong to him, he returns to the nightclub, but it is already closed. When he goes to the address written on the card he finds in the coat pocket, he comes across a dead body. The victim is Sadık, one of the nightclub's partners. Ferit and Hüseyin, a crime novel enthusiast who becomes involved in the case by chance, will work in coordination with the police to ...
This Is How Destiny Wanted
Character: Ahmet
Nilüfer goes to his aunt in Istanbul for his education without telling his father. He meets Ahmet, a young taxi driver in Istanbul. Nilüfer and Ahmet will fight to be together....
Kezban in Paris
Character: Ayhan
A young girl's adventures in Paris, where she visits after befriending a rich boy....
I Will Cry Tomorrow
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Sevda is a poor woman. Kemal, the owner of a nightclub, has taken her under his wing and made her a famous singer. Kemal is in love with Sevda. He is jealous of everyone who comes near her. The young woman asks for time to think before responding to her boss's marriage proposal. She is considering telling him in a tactful way that she does not love him. In Bodrum, where she has gone on vacation, someone is waiting to make her forget Kemal and his proposal. The young woman, who becomes close to M...
Kezban
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Kezban is a beautiful young girl who lives with her mother in a village. After her mother dies, her father learns that she is his daughter and comes to the village to take her with him, but Kezban does not know that this man is her father. Believing that she is going to live with a wealthy relative, Kezban is humiliated by the people in the house she goes to because she is a villager, and she becomes determined to improve herself and change......
Hırçın Kadın
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Menderes Köprüsü
Character: Halit Ersoy
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I Want to Die With You
Character: Nihat
The woman, whose every request is fulfilled by her husband but still fails to be happy, starts to get away from everything by giving herself to alcohol....
Mothers and Daughters
Character: Aydın
A tricotage worker Nese who becomes very popular singer and Anatolian woman, Fatma. The story of them and their daughters....
Düşman Aşıklar
Character: Vedat
The film tells the story of Gonca, who pursues a man who tortured her fiancé and caused his death. Gonca, who accidentally caused the death of her fiancé Kemal, vows to take revenge on the mafia boss known as Tüccar, who is responsible for the incident. Gonca and her assistant Cemil begin following clues that will lead them to Tüccar. Gonca, who is aware of a plan Tüccar is about to carry out, will face other obstacles in her quest to reach him....
Fakir Kızı Leyla
Character: Fikret
Fikret, an heir, is forced to marry Leyla, the daughter of his mother's former housekeeper, in order to avoid being disinherited....
Hayat Mı Bu
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Kısmet
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A series of events unfolding around a wealthy man who pretends to be someone else in order to win the heart of a female singer....
Umit Street
Character: Ali
The film tells the story of two friends living in the same neighborhood who struggle to become rich. Selim and Ali are friends. Ali wants to earn money and marry Lale, while Selim wants to escape from their neighborhood and poverty. Necdet, a mafia boss, once lived on Ümit Street, where Selim and Ali reside. Selim and Ali go to Necdet to ask for work. Necdet gives each of them a thousand lira and tells them to come back in five months with ten thousand lira. The two friends will get to know each...
Arkadaşımın Aşkısın
Character: Ahmet
The film tells the story of two friends who are in love with the same girl. Orhan, Selma, and Ahmet are three friends who grew up together. Orhan and Selma are children of neighboring mansions. Ahmet is the gardener's son. The feelings of the three young people, who are like siblings, begin to change with age. Ahmet and Selma are in love with each other. On the day they are about to confess their feelings, Orhan acts more quickly. He tells Ahmet about his love for Selma. Nothing will ever be the...
Kederli Günlerim
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Bir Türk Masalı
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Three children live a poor but happy life with their families in the Dalyan Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Their lives take a completely different turn when the youngest, Yiğit, is presented with an opportunity to change his family's destiny. Yiğit is invited to participate in a game that has been played for years, where his bravery will be tested by Light and Darkness. Yiğit agrees to play the game, unaware that it will lead him to the princess he has seen in his dreams....
Kartalların Öcü: Severek Ölenler
Character: Üsteğmen Kemal
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