Genco Erkal

Acting

Genco Erkal

Born March 28, 1938 · İstanbul, Türkiye

Died July 31, 2024 · aged 86

Genco Erkal (28 March 1938 – 31 July 2024) was a Turkish drama actor. He starred in the 1983 film A Season in Hakkari, which won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In April 2021, he announced that due to tweets in which he criticized the Turkish Government he was being prosecuted for insulting the President.

Known For

Camdan KalpCamdan Kalp · 1990
Camdan Kalp
6.01990
Movie
A scenario writer who struggles to have any of them filmed, delves into problems of his housemaid.
Sleeping PrincessSleeping Princess · 2010
Sleeping Princess
5.82010
MovieDramaComedy
Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.
The Market: A Tale of TradeThe Market: A Tale of Trade · 2008
The Market: A Tale of Trade
6.42008
MovieDrama
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
Strike the InterestsStrike the Interests · 1982
Strike the Interests
7.01982
MovieDrama
Directed by Zeki Ökten.
Yalınayak SokratesYalınayak Sokrates · 1998
Yalınayak Sokrates
1998
Movie
A Season in HakkariA Season in Hakkari · 1983
A Season in Hakkari
6.91983
MovieDrama
An urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
The HorseThe Horse · 1982
The Horse
7.31982
MovieDrama
A father and son come to grips with external hardships and their own human frailties as they attempt to earn enough money to send the boy to school.
GencoGenco · 2023
Genco
6.02023
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about Genco Erkal who is a veteran of Turkish theatre.

Filmography

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Sleeping PrincessSleeping Princess · 2010
Sleeping Princess
5.82010
MovieDramaComedy
Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.

İskender

Communist OsmanCommunist Osman · 2023
Communist Osman
2023
MovieDocumentary
This documentary, which carries the spirit of humanism, is the story of those who did not submit to reaction and fascism, who struggled for democracy and human rights by seeking a way out of darkness into light. The main character of the documentary is Osman Özgüven, but it is not a biography, but a documentary of ideas. It tells what he and his comrades did in the name of fundamental rights and freedoms at the cost of paying a heavy price, how they popularised their populist policies, their concrete achievements, their adventures, how they overcame the obstacles they encountered and why they could not overcome some obstacles. These stories will shed light not only on a period but also on the future with their messages, and many of the practices they have realised are of a quality that can be a universal model. This is your story.