Ülkü Erakalın

Biography

Ülkü Erakalın , (June 9, 1934, Istanbul - April 6, 2016, Istanbul ), Turkish producer and director. He is the son of Vaso (Vasiliki) Hanım, one of the Direklerarası kanto singers, and Abdurrahman Bey, another Direklerarası musician and a graduate of Muzika-yı Hümayun. He was born in Beyoğlu. He started his education in 1941 at the Dokuzuncu Primary School in Kasımpaşa. After primary school, he entered the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory Music Department in 1947 with an exam. He took piano, violin and flute lessons. He worked as a magazine writer in Radyo Âlemi and Sinema 63 magazines. Erakalın, who graduated from the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory Music Department, started her art life in 1958. The artist, who gained her first experiences as an assistant to Lütfi Akad , exhibited her first work in the art of cinema in 1961 with the film Unutamamımın Kadın (Woman I Forgot). In the film Unfinished Ayyaş, he included scenes from real life and the life of her mother Vaso (Vasilik) Hanım, a master kanto singer and theater actress who came to Turkey from Greece. In addition to her experience as a musician, he also worked as a producer with a company called "Duygu Film". He wrote four …

Directed

1. Bitirimler Sınıfı (1975) — Director
2. Gözleri Ömre Bedel (1964) — Director
3. Afacan the Little Tramp (1971) — Director
4. Kanlı Nigar (1968) — Director
5. Woman of Sorrows (1986) — Director
6. Serseri Aşık (1965) — Director
7. Back Streets (1963) — Director
8. Lekeli Kadın (1962) — Director
9. The Sinful Woman (1966) — Director
10. The Jail Bride (1968) — Director
11. Hot Belle (1979) — Director
12. The Clerk (1968) — Director
13. I'm Under My Hat (1965) — Director
14. Sevgili Öğretmenim (1965) — Director
15. Afacan Harika Çocuk (1972) — Director
16. Beklenen Şarkı (1971) — Director
17. Şıllık (1979) — Director
18. Seven Husbands (1979) — Director
19. Mıstık (1971) — Director
20. Red Carnations (1962) — Director
21. Biz de Arkadaş mıyız? (1962) — Director
22. Bütün Suçumuz Sevmek (1963) — Director
23. Mualla (1964) — Director
24. The Woman Of My Life (1966) — Director
25. Black Rose (1966) — Director
26. Katiller de Ağlar (1966) — Director
27. Hepimiz Kardeşiz (1964) — Director
28. Ölmüş Bir Kadının Mektupları (1969) — Director
29. Uzakta Kal Sevgilim (1965) — Director
30. Unutamadığım Kadın (1961) — Director
31. İki Yetime (1961) — Director
32. Ümitsiz Bekleyiş (1961) — Director
33. Ayşecik: Sokak Kızı (1966) — Director
34. From the Lips to the Heart (1965) — Director
35. Bir Garip Yolcu (1973) — Director
36. Hırçın Kadın (1967) — Director
37. Ablam (1974) — Director
38. Sen Benimsin (1967) — Director
39. Kiralık Kadın (1967) — Director
40. Yayla Kartalı (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Back Streets (1963)
2. İzzet Günay Belgeseli (2008) — Self
3. Altın Koza (1969) — Nominee
4. Yeşilçam Denizi (2003)