Muhsin Ertuğrul

Ertuğrul's tomb

Muhsin Ertuğrul (born March 7, 1892 in Istanbul , † April 29, 1979 in Istanbul), also Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey or Ertugrul Moussin-Bey , was a Turkish actor and director.

Life

Ertuğrul was an important artist of both Turkish theater and Turkish film and is considered to be the central founding figure of Turkish cinema.

First work in film in Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. Here collaboration with Max Reinhardt as an assistant at the Volksbühne, in small roles actor, among others under FW Murnau and alongside Hans Albers . Later also a film director with his own production company. In 1920, Ertuğrul z. B. the Karl May film adaptation The Devil Worshipers with Bela Lugosi . Another German production by the director is the silent film The Festival of the Black Tulip , which he directed together with Marie Luise Droop .

Ertuğrul's pioneering Turkish film work on a larger scale also includes the important film Bir Millet Uyanıyor (1932) about the Turkish liberation war, in which the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk played a supporting role.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cemil Cahit Cem: The Film in Turkey Today. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http :// gegen-die-leinwaende.de
4. ↑ Wolfgang Jacobsen / Heike Klapdor: Merhameh. Karl May's beautiful spy. A dialogue about the author Marie Luise Droop . In: Jörg Schöning (Ed.): Trivial tropes. Exotic travel and adventure films from Germany 1919-1939
5. ↑ Oliver Leaman Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film , 2001, p. 558 f., Section Muhsin Ertuğrul [1]

Web links

• Muhsin Ertuğrul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry in the Karl May Wiki