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Erden Alkan

Erden Alkan

Actor · 85 years old

Candar Bey in the series Diriliş Ertuğrul

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Age85
Birth dateFebruary 12, 1941
BirthplaceGiresun
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAquarius
Eye colorBrown
EducationMax Reinhardt Seminar (Vienna)

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Erden Alkan — Biography

Erden Alkan is an actor who worked in both Turkish and German productions, and whose career is divided between the two countries; the wider public knows him as Candar Bey in Diriliş: Ertuğrul and as Çandarlı Halil Pasha in Fetih 1453. In Germany he is also noted as a theater founder, playwright and director, and he holds dual citizenship.

After graduating from Vefa High School he studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Theatre School in Vienna. His film debut was Ölüm Emri in 1970, and during Yeşilçam's busy years, especially the early 1970s, he appeared in dozens of films, among them Battal Gazi Destanı, Tophaneli Murat, Kanlı Öç, Kaderin Pençesi and Gönülden Yaralılar. His weight then shifted to Germany, with Wolffs Revier, the Tatort episode Brandwunden, Mordkommission Istanbul and Evet, ich will!.

He returned to Turkish television in 2004 with Mavi Rüya, followed by Kollama, Gazi, Yalan Dünya and Gece Gündüz. His last major roles were in Fetih 1453 in 2012, then Yılanların Öcü and Diriliş: Ertuğrul, which he left in early 2017. Later work includes Beyaz Balina and Deliler: Fatih'in Fermanı. In his private life he married a Swedish woman to whom he had been engaged in his youth, decades after they parted.

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

In Erden Alkan's German work there is, in my view, a repeated pattern: the taxi driver in Lola + Bilidikid, Mehmet in Wolffs Revier, Yılmaz in Mordkommission Istanbul. These productions mostly place Turkish-origin figures as side characters at the edge of a crime series; the big parts that would let Alkan carry full weight do not come out of this line.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Erden Alkan's filmography draws an odd spread: a Yeşilçam adventure such as Battal Gazi Destanı in 1971, Kutluğ Ataman's Lola + Bilidikid set in Berlin's underground, and years later Çandarlı Halil Paşa in Fetih 1453. Adventure, Turkish-German realist drama and historical epic sit side by side in one career.

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