Volkan Özcan (actor)
Volkan Özcan (* around 1980 ) is a German actor and educator of Turkish descent who works with young people who have committed criminal offenses. As the main actor in Özgür Yıldırıms gangster film Chiko (2008) he played a criminal youth himself: Tibet, the best friend of the title character and received an actor's award at the film festival Turkey / Germany .
Life
His parents immigrated from Turkey in the 1970s and initially worked as guest workers in the chemistry laboratory of an electronics company. The current educator has been friends with Özgür Yıldırım since childhood and had already worked on Yıldırım's short films before his role in Chiko.
Özcan lives in Hamburg.
Filmography
Short film
- 2008: dead
- 2012: today and tomorrow
Feature films
- 2008: Chiko
Award
- Special prize of the jury at the film festival Turkey / Germany
literature
- Career with violence . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 17, 2008; detailed portrait
Web links
- Volkan Özcan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirsten Reinhardt: Thank you, Roland Koch! In: taz , February 9, 2008; Press conference on the German-Turkish film Chiko
- ↑ chiko-derfilm.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Özcan, Volkan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1980 |