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Barış Pirhasan

Barış Pirhasan

Writing

Biography

Writer, translator, director and poet Baris Pirhasan was born in Istanbul in 1951. He got his BA in 1976 at Bogazici University, Department of English Language and Literature. His poems were published in Turkish magazines such as Yeni Dergi, Militan, Sanat Emegi, Yazko Edebiyat, Gösteri, Sözcükler. Studied in the National Film and Television School, Becaonsfield U.K. (1989-1993. Dept. Film and TV Direction) with a scholarship from The British Council. He has four poetry books published: Tarih Kötüdür / Imzasiz El Yazilari, Babam Benden Hicbir Sey Anlamiyor, Askla Kedi Arasindaki Yedi Benzerlik, Hürrem.

Known For

Vasfiye Is Her Name
7.0

The story of a provincial woman named Vasfiye, whose life passed changing hands and drifting between men in Aegean towns, is told by different narrators. The story changes every time the narrator changes. However, it is not known which story is the truth.

Vasfiye Is Her Name

1985
Last Stop: Kurtuluş
5.8

Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side. These are the women who transport Eylem, each other and perhaps every woman in the country to Last Stop: Kurtulus. The heroines adopt one unwavering principle: to oppose all forms of violence! A dark comedy that's rose-tinted, provocative and fantastic...

Last Stop: Kurtuluş

2012
Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu
7.6

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.

Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu

2019
The Windmill
7.1

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

The Windmill

1986
F Tipi Film
7.0

Nine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.

F Tipi Film

2012
Adam and the Devil
5.6

Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town during the holy month of Ramadan. His unusual behavior towards his wife and little daughter arrests the attention of the townsfolk. Meanwhile Adem, the son of the stationmaster who is crazy for trains begins to learn about and get into a world he has never heard of before in the lessons given by Hasan: trains, sin, good deeds, heaven and hell.. everything gets jumbled. Condemned of being harsh and merciless towards his family, Hasan one day finds himself obliged to reveal the "secret" about himself and his family and this changes everything in the eyes of people. Yet there has remained another secret of which anyone, even Hasan is hardly aware. The people of the town, including Adem, will remember this Ramadan throughout their lives.

Adam and the Devil

2007
How to Save Asiye
6.4

After receiving a letter from a woman named Asiye asking for help to save her, the President of the Associations Against Prostitution visits the brothel to save Asiye. However, she finds herself in a strange musical show.

How to Save Asiye

1986
Desperate Road
5.8

The film tells the story of Hasan, a truck driver. Hasan returns to Turkey from Germany after many years. On his return, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Sabahat and his best friend Yavuz are married. Yavuz is involved in illegal business causing his family to get mixed up.

Desperate Road

1985
O da Beni Seviyor
8.0

Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican.

O da Beni Seviyor

2001
Aaahh Belinda
7.5

Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role of a traditional housewife in a shampoo commercial. However, she is unaware that this commercial will turn into her worst nightmare.

Aaahh Belinda

1986
Blind Man's Bluff
6.0

Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.

Blind Man's Bluff

1985
The Woman Has No Name
6.9

Işık visits a friend's summer home to spend some time alone after growing up under the strain of her surroundings and family. Here, she reflects on her prior issues and the challenges she has encountered as a woman.

The Woman Has No Name

1988
Sawdust Tales
5.6

Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...

Sawdust Tales

1997
Güneşin Tutulduğu Gün
7.0

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Güneşin Tutulduğu Gün

1983
Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal
3.0

Feryal and her husband Sinan have one rule in their relationship. They can have any relationship they want, but they must be honest about it. In a way, this is much more difficult than simply being faithful in marriage.

Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal

1990
Coastliners
N/A

Coastliners puts the theme of “human rights” together with different stories, and consists of five short fiction films made by internationally acclaimed different directors. We accompany the personal effects of refugees washed ashore, the peculiar story of an assaulted young man, a mother and daughter who take refuge in a house when bombs sound on the Syrian border, a hero stuck in the hurly burly of Istanbul, trying to overcome obstacles; and the her spiritual journey of a pregnant woman trying to return to her village from where she was cast away.

Coastliners

2016
Badi
3.7

An alien is stranded on earth and eventually befriends a young boy during his quest to return to his home planet. Badi is a Turkish remake of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

Badi

1983
Bekle Dedim Gölgeye
N/A

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Bekle Dedim Gölgeye

1991
Loves with Gravity: Gul and Adem
N/A

Adapted from the story \"Good Country People\" by Flannery O. Connor. Plot - Longing for love, the story of the exploitation of Gul, who has an artificial leg, by the cunning peasant Adam.

Loves with Gravity: Gul and Adem

1996
Loves with Gravity
9.0

Five short stories based on 'Love' and 'Tolerance' themes. Each of the short films moves along their own lines and ultimately converges in the concepts of love and tolerance.

Loves with Gravity

1996