Cinema director,
producer (B. 31st January 1910, Istanbul – D. 11th May
2000, Istanbul). His father was one of the old adjutants of Abdülhamit II and
his mother was Hasene (Killigil) Hanım. He was the nephew of Enver Pasha who
brought the first film camera to
In 1939, he
directed his first full-length film Taş Parçası that was adapted from a play of Reşat Nuri Gültekin that
was previously staged in the Şehir Tiyatroları (T.N. City Theaters). After
making this movie that was one of the products of the period of theater players
in the Turkish cinema with respect to the décor, actor and expression, he turned
towards the detective movies and created Yılmaz Ali (1940). This movie, carrying elementary
motives and type castings from the foreign cinema products, took attention with
the usage of locations having different structures and with its dynamic images.
After making Kıvırcık Paşa again with theater players, he became the
initiator of serial films in the Turkish cinema with Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe.
He shot his first three movies in a talking way; however, he shot Dertli
Pınar as a silent movie to be post synchronized afterwards for the first
time in
Faruk Kenç, who
was one of the first and leading directors of a new period in the Turkish
cinema called “the period of transition” between the period of “theater
players” and the period of “cinema actors”, started through İstanbul Film
founded by him in 1944 to make productions in addition to directing movies. He
organized a competition of artists through the magazine of Yıldız in order to find actors to his company and to train film
actors apart from theater players for the first time. By this way, he brought
actors and actresses such as Belgin Doruk and Ayhan Işık to the Turkish cinema.
In the years of 1946-47, he founded the Yerli Film Yapanlar Society together
with some of his friends and he organized competitions and festivals with the
title of the head of society. He enabled tax reductions for Turkish films.
Faruk Kenç, who turned towards the village environment between the years of 1944-48,
directed the films Hasret, Günahsızlar, and Karanlık Yollar. He benefited from the commercial success
of these movies, which used the village only as a location, and chose the same
location in his historical movies (Türkân Sultan and Köroğlu
1953). His following works were mostly movies that didn’t pass the limit of essays and that were made for
commercial purposes, for example Kaybolan
Gençlik (1955) that described people going to the bad, Çölde Bir İstanbul
Kızı (1957) that carried the effects of the foreign cinema and Ölmeyen Aşk
(1959) that was a musical melodrama. After that, he moved from the directorship
of full-length films to the production of short-length films. He made
educational and instructional short-length films such as Sanayi'de Eğitim,
Ne İçin Eğitim?, Güler Yüz Tatlı Söz, and Sümerbank Mağazasında
Bir Gün. He conducted the
presidency of Film-San Association.
WORKS:
Taş Parçası (1939),
Yılmaz Ali (1940), Kıvırcık Paşa (1940), Dertli Pınar (1943), Hasret (1944), Günahsızlar (1946), Karanlık
Yollar (1946),
Tuzak (1948), Üvey Baba (1949), Çakırcalı
Mehmet Efe (1950), Parmaksız Salih (1950), Hürriyet Şarkısı (1951), Kendini Kurtaran Şehir (1951), Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe Nasıl Vuruldu (1952), Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe’nin Definesi (1952), Kanlı Çiftlik (1952), Türkân Sultan ve Köroğlu (1953), Nasreddin Hoca ve Timurlenk (1954), Hayatımı Mahveden Kadın (1955), Kaybolan Gençlik (1955), Çölde Bir Istanbul Kızı (1957), Annemi Arıyorum (1959), Felâket Yolu
(1959), Ölmeyen Aşk (1959), Peçeli Efe (1959), Boş ver Doktor (1962), Çöl Kanunu (1964).