Birol Ünel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birol Ünel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Silifke, Mersin, Turkey, 1961-08-18

Died: 2020-09-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	The Passenger – Welcome to Germany		57
2	1990	A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom		67
3	1992	Mau Mau	Schulte	50
4	1996	Landgang für Ringo	Yusuf	50
5	1997	Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur		55
6	1998	Frankfurt Millennium	Mustafa	80
7	1999	Dealer	Erdal	46
8	1999	Unknown Friend	Moritz	10
9	2000	Tour Abroad	Osman	0
10	2000	In July	Club Doyen	73
11	2001	Planet Alex	Milan	0
12	2001	Enemy at the Gates	Politruk	74
13	2002	My Mother	Hasan	40
14	2002	Blackberry	Sylvester	43
15	2003	Der gestohlene Mond	Nick	0
16	2003	King of Thieves	Birol	63
17	2004	Not a Lovestory	Guru	0
18	2004	Head-On	Cahit Tomruk	75
19	2004	German Dream	Birol Ünel	0
20	2004	Kalbin Zamanı	Demir	83
21	2005	Robbery Alla Turca	Pamir	46
22	2006	Transylvania	Tchangalo	55
23	2006	House of the Sleeping Beauties	Herr Gold	56
24	2007	The Unpolished	Axel	60
25	2007	Valerie	Jaro	53
26	2008	The Moon and Other Lovers	Gansar	50
27	2009	Soul Kitchen	Shayn Weiss	69
28	2011	The Cricket	Worker	0
29	2011	Sleepless Night	Yilmaz	60
30	2012	Looking for Eimish	Lupô	53
31	2015	Netekim Karakolu		0
32	2015	I'm Off Then	Americo	62
33	2016	Back to nothing	Kongo	0
34	2016	Plan B	Hausmeister	65
35	2016	Falling	Aslan	60
36	2018	Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman	İvan	42
37		North Pole		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
2	1970	Scene of the Crime	Houari Al'Bakr	61
3	1970	Scene of the Crime	Gürkan Agban	61
4	1970	Scene of the Crime	Rico Baumann	61
5	1970	Scene of the Crime	Henkel	61
6	1980	Auf Achse	Kemal	62
7	1981	A Case For Two	Klaus	52
8	1984	Der Fahnder	Nick Peters	69
9	1984	Der Fahnder	Erol	69
10	1995	Balko	Tobias Wölke	58
11	1995	Balko	Achim Koch	58
12	1996	Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police	Harkan Bülent	65
13	1996	Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord	Dieter Lohmann	0
14	1998	Tierarzt Dr. Engel	Siggi Kirchlechner	0
15	1998	Der Clown	Cosmo Nunnari	73
16	2000	Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz	Bernd Schlegel	80
17	2002	Inspektor Rolle	Tschokan Bischkek	0
18	2004	Leute am Donnerstag	himself	0
19	2005	KRIMI.DE	Herr Weiß	0

Birol Ünel

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