Muhsin ErtuÄŸrul

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 the Turkish theater and the Turkish film and is regarded as a central founding figure of the Turkish cinema. Initial work in the film in Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. Here cooperation with Max Reinhardt as an assistant at the Volksbühne, in small roles actor among others. Among FW Murnau and next to Hans Albers Later, film director with his own production company. 1920 realized Ertuğrul such as the Karl -May- filming The Devil Worshippers with Bela Lugosi. Another German production of the director is the silent film The Feast of the black tulip, which he directed in collaboration with Marie Luise Droop.

To Ertuğruls groundbreaking Turkish film work of a larger scale and the major film Bir Millet Uyanıyor (1932 ) belongs to the Turkish liberation war in which the Turkish state's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk played a supporting role