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.

Filmography

• 2018Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman — İvan
• 2016Back to Nothing — Kongo
• 2016Falling — Aslan
• 2016Plan B — Hausmeister
• 2015I'm Off Then — Americo
• 2015Netekim Karakolu
• 2012Looking for Eimish — Lupô
• 2012Showman Olli Schulz — Therapeut
• 2011Sleepless Night — Yilmaz
• 2011The Cricket — Worker
• 2009Soul Kitchen — Shayn Weiss
• 2008The Moon and Other Lovers — Gansar
• 2007The Unpolished — Axel
• 2007Valerie — Jaro
• 2006House of the Sleeping Beauties — Herr Gold
• 2006Transylvania — Tchangalo
• KRIMI.DE — Herr Weiß
• 2005Robbery Alla Turca — Pamir
• 2004German Dream — Birol Ünel
• 2004Head-On — Cahit Tomruk
• 2004Kalbin Zamanı — Demir
• 2004Not a Lovestory — Guru
• 2003Der gestohlene Mond — Nick
• 2003King of Thieves — Birol
• 2002Blackberry — Sylvester
• Inspektor Rolle — Tschokan Bischkek
• 2002My Mother — Hasan
• 2001Enemy at the Gates — Politruk
• 2001Planet Alex — Milan
• Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz — Bernd Schlegel
• 2000In July — Club Doyen
• 2000Tour Abroad — Osman
• 1999Dealer — Erdal
• 1999Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht — Günther
• 1999Unknown Friend — Moritz
• Der Clown — Cosmo Nunnari
• 1998Frankfurt Millennium — Mustafa
• Tierarzt Dr. Engel — Siggi Kirchlechner
• 1997Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur
• Dead Pool — Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
• Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police — Harkan Bülent
• Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord — Dieter Lohmann
• 1996Landgang für Ringo — Yusuf
• Balko — Tobias Wölke, Achim Koch
• 1992Mau Mau — Schulte
• 1990A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom
• 1988The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
• Der Fahnder — Nick Peters, Erol
• A Case For Two — Klaus
• Auf Achse — Kemal
• Scene of the Crime — Houari Al'Bakr, Gürkan Agban, Rico Baumann, Henkel
• North Pole

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Leute am Donnerstag — himself
• German Film Award — Self