Fikret Hakan (born Bumin Gaffar Çitanak; 23 April 1934 – 11 July 2017) was a prolific Turkish film actor and a recipient of the honorary State Artist, a title awarded by the Turkish government.
Hakan was born as Bumin Gaffar Çitanak in 1934 to Gaffar and Fatma Belkıs.
His mother was a head nurse while his father was a literature teacher.
He moved along with his parents as a teenager from Balikesir to Istanbul, and enrolled in Galatasaray High School.
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Hakan began his artistic career in 1950 as an actor for the Ses Theatre and a contributor to literary magazines.
Making his debut in Evli mi bekar mi, a short comedy directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1951, and his feature film debut in 1953 in Köprüalti Çocuklari (Kids Under the Bridge), he has made over 170 appearances in film to date, although his career was at its most productive throughout the 1950s and 1960s through to 1976.
He starred in films such as Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) in 1962.
Hakan appeared as Colonel Ahmed Elçi along with Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson in the 1970-mpvie You Can't Win 'Em All directed by Peter Collinson.
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Hakan made four marriages.
His spouses were Lale Sarı, Semiramis Pekkan, Neşecan Paşmak and Hümeyra.
He had an extramarital daughter Elif Hakan.
[5] Lately, he had a life partner Tijen Kılıç.
[6] He died on 11 July 2017 at a hospital in Istanbul after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
[7] He was interred at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following a memorial ceremony held at Istanbul University's Faculty of Science,[6] and the religious funeral in Afet Yolal Mosque in Levent.
Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......
Ramazan, together with his children, migrate to the big city, Istanbul in order to give them a better life. His daughter Fidan begins working as a clerk at a shop. But she could not adapt to the life of big city. She runs away with the son of the shop owner. Ramazan searches for his daughter, but the big city already has corrupted his daughter
Kemal a simple teacher arrives in a remote village to start a new school and teach the young ones, when he gets there he faces a strong opposition to his idea by the village master. Kemal with the help of few villagers tries to fight back the ignorance and oppression to give a hope for the poor people of the village.
A father says that whoever wants to marry his daughter must first beat his daughter in a fight.
Singer Saziye, who fell in love with Orhan, her university teacher, has not completely forgotten the young man, even though it has been years since she left Orhan. Saziye's path crosses with Orhan again.
Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.
The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.