Sinan Çetin

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Sinan Çetin (born March 1, 1953 in Bahçesaray, Turkey) is a Turkish actor, film director, and producer.

Çetin was born as the son of a customs officer and studied art history at Hacettepe University. Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his 1999 movie Propaganda, a critically acclaimed libertarian comedy about post-World War II eastern Turkey. Çetin both directed and produced this movie, as he did for many other films.

Çetin is a fan of Ayn Rand, and has published Rand's books and other libertarian books in Turkey. He is also prominent liberal figure of Turkey (with political-thinker Atilla Yayla). He worked as a counselor to the first female prime minister of Turkey, Tansu Çiller and he announced that he votes for ruling AK Parti.

Contents 1 Filmography 1.1 Films 1.2 Television series 1.3 Documentaries 2 External links

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Films

• 1975 - Hanzo (Assistant director)
• 1980 - Bir Günün Hikayesi
• 1982 - Çiçek Abbas
• 1982 - Çirkinler de Sever
• 1985 - 14 Numara
• 1986 - Prenses Gökyüzü (Director)
• 1993 - Berlin in Berlin
• 1995 - Bay E (Director)
• 1999 - PropagandaKemal Sunal
• 2001 - Komser Şekspir
• 2002 - Banka (Director)
• 2002 - Mumya Firarda (Actor)
• 2004 - Okul
• 2004 - Romantik
• 2005 - Pardon
• 2005 - Şans Kapıyı Kırınca (Actor)

[edit] Television series

• 2004 - Avrupa Yakası
• 2006 - Sahte Prenses

[edit] Documentaries

• 1977 - Baskın
• 1977 - Halı Türküsü

[edit] External links

• Sinan Çetin at the Internet Movie Database

• Her 10 yılda bir başka Sinan Çetin, Asu Maro, January 23, 2008, Milliyet (Turkish)

Awards
Preceded by Atıf Yılmaz	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1985 for 14 Numara	Succeeded by Atıf Yılmaz

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Director Halit Refiğ (1964) · Atıf Yılmaz (1965) · Memduh Ün (1966) · Yılmaz Duru (1967) · Yılmaz Duru (1968) · Ertem Eğilmez (1970) · Muzaffer Aslan (1971) · Atıf Yılmaz (1972) · Nejat Saydam (1973) · Ömer Lütfi Akad (1974) · Şerif Gören (1975) · Atıf Yılmaz (1976) · Zeki Ökten (1977) · Atıf Yılmaz (1978) · Erden Kıral (1981) · Ömer Kavur (1982) · Zeki Ökten (1983) · Atıf Yılmaz (1984) · Sinan Çetin (1985) · Atıf Yılmaz (1986) · Ömer Kavur (1987) · Ömer Kavur (1988) · Halit Refiğ (1989) · Halit Refiğ (1990) · Yavuz Özkan (1991) · Tunç Okan (1992) · Erden Kıral (1993) · Yavuz Özkan (1994) · Canan Gerede (1995) · Tunç Başaran (1996) · Ferzan Özpetek (1997) · Ömer Kavur (1998) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1999) · Derviş Zaim (2000) · Zeki Demirkubuz (2001) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002) · Ömer Kavur (2003) · Uğur Yücel (2004) · Kutluğ Ataman (2005) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2006) · Fatih Akın (2007)