Lale Mansur

Acting

Lale Mansur

Born January 1, 1956 · Istanbul, Turkey (age 70)

Sanat yaşamına İstanbul devlet Opera ve Balesi’nde başlayan Lale Mansur, burada baş balerin olarak uzun yıllar görev yaptı. Oyunculuğa 1992 yılında BBC Televizyonu tarafından çekilen ve Yaşar Kemal’in yaşamını konu alan yönetmenliğini James Runcie’nin üstlendiği belgesel yapım ‘Childhood’ ile başladı. Bu sıralarda Los Angeles’da Eric Morris Actors Workshop’ta oyunculuk, İstanbul’da diksi…

Known For

Tersine DünyaTersine Dünya · 1994
Tersine Dünya
5.61994
MovieComedy
The film is set in a world where traditional gender roles between women and men are reversed. Bitirim Leyla and Sarı Leman are the tough, street-smart women of their neighborhood. While Leman works in a factory, Leyla makes a living through small-time scams on the streets. Leyla cheats on her husband with a young man from the neighborhood, while Leman spends her time with male prostitutes. However, the lifestyle they lead eventually draws both women into crime.
Walking After MidnightWalking After Midnight · 1992
Walking After Midnight
4.31992
MovieDrama
Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.
Love in Another LanguageLove in Another Language · 2009
Love in Another Language
7.12009
Movie
Onur, who has been deaf since birth, works as a librarian. His father had left him and his mother when he was seven, and Onur has always blamed himself for this. Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks of the people around him. At his friend Vedat's engagement party, he meets Zeynep, who later finds out about Onur's hearing disability, but is not bothered by it. She is forced by her overbearing father to leave home and gets a job at a call-center. Having to speak on the phone all day to people she doesn't know, Zeynep finds peace with Onur, who she communicates with perfectly without speaking...
Roofless WomenRoofless Women · 1999
Roofless Women
1999
MovieDrama
The story of the intersecting lives and friendships of two women who are completely unlike each other.
MisafirMisafir · 2011
Misafir
2.52011
Movie
On his first night back in his hometown of Kütahya after living in Paris for many years, Oktay is once again confronted with the reasons that have kept him away from home for so long. As he is about to leave the city again, he happens to walk into the home of a distant relative and meets Ayşe. Ayşe is a rural woman who is unhappy in her marriage and cannot fit into the small world confined by four walls. Oktay and Ayşe find happiness in each other after many years. The only way to sustain their happiness is for Ayşe to go to Paris with Oktay. Ayşe, perhaps for the first time, is faced with the opportunity to be happy and must choose between everything she knows as life. Ayşe’s decision will also determine whether Oktay, who has never felt at home anywhere, will end his “guest” status in his own life.
Listen from the Nay: SeparationsListen from the Nay: Separations · 2008
Listen from the Nay: Separations
3.72008
MovieDramaHistory
The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the efforts of a handful of people seeking peace in Istanbul in the days leading up to the 1798 Ottoman-French war. The dervish, who is responsible for keeping the Mevlevi records, is also in the service of Nuri Dede Efendi, a former Ottoman pasha. Dede Efendi and some of his old friends, who are French diplomats, are trying to prevent the impending war. This unofficial effort is being carried out at Sahilsaray, which belongs to Beyhan Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III. A bond develops between Halil, the court physician accompanying Dede Efendi during the diplomatic negotiations, and Gülnihal Kalfa, Beyhan Sultan's assistant. The young dervish who accompanies Dede Efendi to Sahilsaray brings a notebook filled with pages that blend the story he has witnessed in its entirety with passages reflecting the teachings of Mevlana...
Nihavend MucizeNihavend Mucize · 1997
Nihavend Mucize
4.91997
MovieComedy
Suzan died 25 years ago. But after seeing his son's loneliness and despair in the world, he had to return to the world at the end of these 25 years. The world he left is completely different from the world he finds. Suzan suffers from a deep adaptation to this change. After a while, he realizes that he must adopt such a fit.
BlissBliss · 2007
Bliss
7.02007
MovieDrama
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.

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MisafirMisafir · 2011
Misafir
2.52011
Movie
On his first night back in his hometown of Kütahya after living in Paris for many years, Oktay is once again confronted with the reasons that have kept him away from home for so long. As he is about to leave the city again, he happens to walk into the home of a distant relative and meets Ayşe. Ayşe is a rural woman who is unhappy in her marriage and cannot fit into the small world confined by four walls. Oktay and Ayşe find happiness in each other after many years. The only way to sustain their happiness is for Ayşe to go to Paris with Oktay. Ayşe, perhaps for the first time, is faced with the opportunity to be happy and must choose between everything she knows as life. Ayşe’s decision will also determine whether Oktay, who has never felt at home anywhere, will end his “guest” status in his own life.

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Listen from the Nay: SeparationsListen from the Nay: Separations · 2008
Listen from the Nay: Separations
3.72008
MovieDramaHistory
The story of the mystical world of a young Mevlevi dervish who witnesses the emotional relationship between two young members of the palace, amid the efforts of a handful of people seeking peace in Istanbul in the days leading up to the 1798 Ottoman-French war. The dervish, who is responsible for keeping the Mevlevi records, is also in the service of Nuri Dede Efendi, a former Ottoman pasha. Dede Efendi and some of his old friends, who are French diplomats, are trying to prevent the impending war. This unofficial effort is being carried out at Sahilsaray, which belongs to Beyhan Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III. A bond develops between Halil, the court physician accompanying Dede Efendi during the diplomatic negotiations, and Gülnihal Kalfa, Beyhan Sultan's assistant. The young dervish who accompanies Dede Efendi to Sahilsaray brings a notebook filled with pages that blend the story he has witnessed in its entirety with passages reflecting the teachings of Mevlana...