Muharrem Gülmez

Born

1968 (aged about 58)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Muharrem Gülmez was born in 1968 in Ankara. He studied in the film-television department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University and began his work in cinema in the early 1990s.

His best-known work is the 2006 production Beynelmilel, which he co-directed with Sırrı Süreyya Önder and for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film, which treats the martial law years after 1980 in a tragicomic tone, won the best film and best screenplay awards at the 14th Altın Koza Film Festival and was also chosen best film at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.

On television, he was co-producer of the series Elveda Rumeli and producer of the series Balkan Düğünü. In 2015 he directed Çarşı Pazar, about people struggling to keep a hamam that faced closure on its feet. Gülmez, who also appears in front of the camera, played Yavuz Sultan Selim in the series Muhteşem Yüzyıl and acted in the series Behzat Ç. and Kocamın Ailesi.

Gülmez played Necmi in Avşar Film's 2013 film Su ve Ateş.