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Birol Unel
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18 August 1961 - 3 September 2020
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Birol Unel is a German actor of Turkish origin. He was born in 1969 in Turkey in the town of Silifke, but when he was 7 years old, the family moved to Germany, in the small town of Brinkum, near Bremen. Unel himself, according to people who know him, does not consider himself either a Turk or a German - such a traveler, a "citizen of the world." Parents, perhaps, were not mistaken, calling the boy Birol (translated from Turkish it means unique), the artist and really quite original. After school,
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Birol Unel is a German actor of Turkish origin. He was born in 1969 in Turkey in the town of Silifke, but when he was 7 years old, the family moved to Germany, in the small town of Brinkum, near Bremen. Unel himself, according to people who know him, does not consider himself either a Turk or a German - such a traveler, a "citizen of the world." Parents, perhaps, were not mistaken, calling the boy Birol (translated from Turkish it means unique), the artist and really quite original.
After school, Birol entered the Institute of Music and Theatre in Hanover, and after graduation he worked at the Berlin Tacheles Theatre. There he played the main role in the play Caligula. He made his film debut in the film Passenger in 1987. Since then, Birol Junel has played dozens of roles in theater and cinema. He has appeared in both German and Turkish films and has fans in Europe and Asia. Yunel often starred in films by Turkish director Fatih Akin. In The Aztec Sun, he plays a private detective. And in the tape Soul Kitchen, a chef who tries to explain to visitors the rules of eating dishes: gazpaccio is eaten cold! Naturally, he could not resist in the restaurant and was fired the same day.
One of the most famous roles of Yunel Birol is the role of Kahit in the film of the same director “Head against the Wall”. According to Fatih Akin, it was hard to imagine a more ideal actor for this role. Kahit is a suicidal patient at a psychiatric clinic. After the death of his wife, he lost interest in life so much that he drove the car into the wall from all over the acceleration. But in the clinic he meets Sibel, a desperate girl who tried to cut her wrists to escape from her Muslim parents, who did not allow her to walk the night away. /