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.
Head-On
(Cahit Tomruk)
In July
(Club Doyen)
Soul Kitchen
(Shayn Weiss)
The Moon and Other Lovers
(Gansar)
The Unpolished
(Axel)
Robbery Alla Turca
(Pamir)
Blackberry
(Sylvester)
Valerie
(Jaro)
Looking for Eimish
(Lupô)
House of the Sleeping Beauties
(Herr Gold)
Dealer
(Erdal)
Landgang für Ringo
(Yusuf)
Der gestohlene Mond
(Nick)
Transylvania
(Tchangalo)
Frankfurt Millennium
(Mustafa)
German Dream
(Birol Ünel)
Planet Alex
(Milan)
Mau Mau
(Schulte)
I'm Off Then
(Americo)
Unknown Friend
(Moritz)
Back to nothing
(Kongo)
Not a Lovestory
(Guru)
Netekim Karakolu
The Cricket
(Worker)
My Mother
(Hasan)
Falling
(Aslan)
Tour Abroad
(Osman)
King of Thieves
(Birol)
Enemy at the Gates
(Politruk)
Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur
Kalbin Zamanı
(Demir)
Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman
(İvan)
Sleepless Night
(Yilmaz)
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
North Pole
Plan B
(Hausmeister)
A Case For Two
(Klaus)
Scene of the Crime
(Houari Al'Bakr)
Der Fahnder
(Nick Peters)
Der Fahnder
(Erol)
Inspektor Rolle
(Tschokan Bischkek)
KRIMI.DE
(Herr Weiß)
Balko
(Tobias Wölke)
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
(Siggi Kirchlechner)
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz
(Bernd Schlegel)
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
(Dieter Lohmann)
Auf Achse
(Kemal)
Balko
(Achim Koch)
Der Clown
(Cosmo Nunnari)
Scene of the Crime
(Gürkan Agban)
Scene of the Crime
(Rico Baumann)
Scene of the Crime
(Henkel)
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
(Harkan Bülent)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Leute am Donnerstag
(himself)