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Cezmi Baskın

Actor · 77 years old

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Age77 years old
Birth dateMarch 11, 1949
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signPisces

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Cezmi Baskın — Biography

He began his stage career as an amateur at Bakırköy's community playhouse and, after graduating from the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, studied acting at the LCC Language and Culture Center under Ayla Algan and Beklan Algan. He spent many years performing with Grup Oyuncuları, the Ankara Art Theatre and the state theatres — including a stint in İzmir — while also teaching young performers and directing numerous productions, alongside occasional television drama and dubbing work for TRT. Trips abroad let him share his experience with Turkish and foreign actors; he ran workshops at an institute in Austria and toured Switzerland, Austria and Germany with a Robert Schneider play. He belongs to the actors' associations ÇASOD and FIA, has volunteered since 2004 in the Nâzım Hikmet Culture Centre's staged readings, and joined the Workers' Party of Turkey in 2023. On television he reached a wide audience as the painter İbrikçi in Bizimkiler and as Osman in Akasya Durağı, and has appeared in more than sixty films since the 1970s. His performance in Beynelmilel won him the best actor prize at the 2007 Golden Boll festival, followed by similar honors at film festivals in Pune and Karachi.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

A good way to weigh Cezmi Baskın on film is to start with Hiçbiryerde: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's first feature is the story of a woman who works at the Haydarpaşa ticket window, and Muzaffer belongs to that hushed world. In my view this is a vein apart from his big commercial comedies.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Cezmi Baskın's parts are often small figures of authority standing between the state and the neighbourhood: the gendarmerie commander in Mavi Sürgün, Bekir Çavuş in Yaban, the night watchman in Kaçıklık Diploması. İbrikçi Sıtkı in Bizimkiler and Osman Şentürk in Akasya Durağı show the same everyday figure from the side of comedy. In my view this body of work builds a look that takes authority seriously and laughs at it too, and it fills in the ordinary cast of a Turkey changing from the 1990s to the 2010s.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes on this person's screen work, written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader comments are below.

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