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Taner Barlas

Taner Barlas

Actor · 79 years old

Director of the play Kürk Mantolu Madonna

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Age79
Birth dateMay 26, 1947
BirthplaceBurdur
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBrown
EducationIstanbul University Faculty of Law

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Taner Barlas — Biography

Taner Barlas is an artist who has moved between stage and screen in Turkey, known as much for directing and writing plays as for acting. He is associated with his work in pantomime, with character parts in films by directors from Atıf Yılmaz to Çağan Irmak, and with years of productions at the Istanbul City Theatres. In recent years he has directed the stage adaptation of Sabahattin Ali's novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law he studied at the LCC Theatre School and developed his theater and pantomime training in England and Poland, performing at festivals at home and abroad. In 1984 he founded Mim Theatre under his own name and served as its artistic director for five years. He entered cinema in 1986 with Atıf Yılmaz's Değirmen and Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur, and in the 1990s became known through Berdel, Piano Piano Bacaksız, Seni Seviyorum Rosa and Amerikalı. On television in the 2000s he appeared in Asmalı Konak, Yaprak Dökümü, Binbir Gece, Kavak Yelleri and Aşk ve Ceza, followed by Yüksek Sosyete and Son Destan.

On stage he acted at the Istanbul City Theatres in plays such as Kral Lear, Godot'yu Beklerken and Antigone, and directed Sevgili Doktor, Merhaba Hoşçakal and Maskeliler. Maskeliler earned him the Sadri Alışık Award for director of the year's most successful production in 2009.

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

Continuity with directors stands out in Taner Barlas's filmography: Atıf Yılmaz's Değirmen, Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur and Berdel, Tunç Başaran's Piano Piano Bacaksız, Çağan Irmak's Çilekli Pasta. In my view the generational gap from Yılmaz to Irmak shows how sought-after he is as a character actor.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Çemberimde Gül Oya, directed by Çağan Irmak, is a good way into Taner Barlas's series work: a political drama about the years before September 12, 1980, compact at forty episodes. The five-season Yaprak Dökümü is the way to find the same actor inside a much longer-running family drama.

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

Seni Seviyorum Rosa is a film adapted from Sevgi Soysal's novel, while Yaprak Dökümü is a series based on Reşat Nuri Güntekin's novel. Taner Barlas appearing in both makes him, in my view, a bridge from the literary-adaptation cinema of the 1990s to the literary-adaptation television of the 2000s.

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