Tunç Başaran is a Turkish

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 screenwriter

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, film director

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, film producer

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 and actor

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Biography

After attending the Faculty of Literature for a while he left school and started working as a script writer for the director Memduh Ün

Memduh Ün

Memduh Ün is a Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. His film The Broken Pots was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...

. He then continued to be the assistant of Memduh Ün for a long time. Meanwhile, he also worked as assistant for such directors as Ömer Lütfi Akad

Ömer Lütfi Akad

Ömer Lütfi Akad, aka Lütfi Ömer Akad, was a Turkish film director, who directed movies from 1948-1974. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edip Adıvar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in the "Director Generation"...

, Halit Refiğ

Halit Refig

Halit Refiğ was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials...

, Atıf Yılmaz

Atif Yilmaz

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...

, Ertem Göreç. In 1964 he directed his first feature Survival. By 1962, he had directed about 40 films. After 1972, he switched to commercials. He directed Don't Let Them Shoot The Kite in 1989.
He is currently serving on the advisory board of the Istanbul International Film Festival

Istanbul International Film Festival

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Filmography

Director:

• On Korkusuz Adam (1964) ... aka Ten Fearless Men (International: English title)
• Kara Memed (1964)
• Hayat Kavgası (1964) ... aka The Struggle to Live
• On Korkusuz Kadın (1965) ... aka Ten Fearless Women (International: English title)
• Murtaza (1965)
• Konyakçı (1965)
• Horasan'ın Üç Atlısı (1965)
• Vatan Kurtaran Aslan (1966)
• Kanunsuz Yol (1966)
• Fatih'in Fedaisi (1966)
• Kara Davut (1967)
• Elveda (1967)
• Büyük Kin (1967)
• Gönüllü Kahramanlar (1968)
• Tarkan (1969)
• Hazreti Ali (1969)
• Allah'in Aslanı Ali (1969)
• Acı İle Karışık (1969)
• Üç Kral Serseri (1970)
• Küçük Hanımın Şoförü (1970)
• Gönül Meyhanesi (1970)
• Gölgedeki Adam (1970)
• Cafer Bey (1970)
• On Küçük Şeytan (1971)
• Korkusuz Kaptan Swing (1971) ... aka Courageous Captain Swing (USA: literal English title)
• Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde
  Aysecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde
  Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde is a 1971 film by Turkish film director Tunç Başaran, an uncredited and very close adaptation by Hamdi Değirmencioğlu of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
  
  (1971) ... aka Ayşecik and the Bewitched Dwarfs in Dreamland ... aka Ayşecik in the Land of the Magic Dwarfs (USA: literal English title) ... aka The Turkish Wizard of Oz (USA: video box title)

... aka Turkish Wizard of Oz (USA: bootleg title)

• Şehvet (1972)
• Demir Yumruk: Devler Geliyor (1973) ... aka Iron Fist: The Giants Are Coming (USA: literal English title)
• Biri ve Diğerleri (1987) ... aka One and the Others
• Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (1989) ... aka Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (International: English title: festival title)
• Piyano Piyano Bacaksız (1990) ... aka Piano Piano Kid (USA) ... aka Softly, Softly Little One
• Uzun İnce Bir Yol (1991) ... aka A Long Narrow Path
• Sen de Gitme (1995) ... aka Don't Leave Triandfilis

... aka Ne pars pas, Triandfilis (France) ... aka Please Don't Go

• Azmi (1995) (mini) TV Series
• Kaçıklık Diplomasi (1998)
• Abuzer Kadayıf (2000)
• Üç Kişilik Aşk (2004) (TV)
• Teberik Şanssız (2004)
• Büyülü Fener (2005)
• Sinema Bir Mucizedir (2005)

Screenwriter:

• Kara Memed (1964)
• Kanunsuz Yol (1966)
• Büyük Kin (1967)
• Gönüllü Kahramanlar (1968)
• Acı İle Karışık (1969)
• Üç Kral Serseri (1970)
• Gönül Meyhanesi (1970)
• Cafer Bey (1970)
• Şehvet (1972)
• Demir Yumruk: Devler Geliyor (1973) ... aka Iron Fist: The Giants Are Coming (USA: literal English title)
• Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (1989) ... aka Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (International: English title: festival title)
• Piyano Piyano Bacaksız (1990) ... aka Piano Piano Kid (USA) ... aka Softly, Softly Little One
• Uzun İnce Bir Yol (1991) ... aka A Long Narrow Path
• Kaçıklık Diplomasi (1998)

Actor:

• Beş Kardeştiler (1962)
• Rıfat Diye Biri (1962) ... aka A Person Named Rıfat (International: English title)
• Bire On Vardı (1963)

Producer:

• Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (1989) ... aka Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (International: English title: festival title)

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