Mehmet Emin Toprak (11 September 1974 – 2 December 2002) was a Turkish film actor. Toprak starred in the critically acclaimed 2002 film ''

Uzak ''Uzak'' (, ''Distant'' in North America) is a 2002 Turkish drama film written, produced, shot and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film won a total of 31 awards at various film festivals, including Best Actor at Cannes, Special Jury Prize at ...

''. He died in a car crash on the way back from the

Ankara Film Festival Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the list of national capitals, capital of Turkey. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center ...

, near the town of Çan at the age of 28 years. A few weeks after the accident, the film ''Uzak'' was shown in the

2003 Cannes Film Festival The 56th Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2003. French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer Patrice Chéreau was the President of the Jury. The Palme d'Or went to the American film ''Elephant'' by Gus ...

, where Toprak was posthumously awarded

Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The term most often refers to th ...

Personal life

Toprak collaborated with his cousin

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning '' Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interest in photography sta ...

in his films. He was newlywed at the time of his death.

Filmography

*''

Kasaba Kasaba or Kasabaköy is a village 17 kilometres outside Kastamonu, Turkey. It had a population of about 23,000 in 1905, when it had considerable local trade, but has since shrunk to only a few dozen households. Kasaba does not contain any ancie ...

'' (''The Small Town'', 1997) *''

Mayıs Sıkıntısı ''Clouds of May'' ( tr, Mayıs Sıkıntısı) is a 1999 Turkish film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Cast * Emin Ceylan * Muzaffer Özdemir * Fatma Ceylan * Emin Toprak * Muhammed Zımbaoğlu * Sadık İncesu Reception On Metacritic, the film has ...

'' (''Clouds of May'', 1999) *''

'' (''Distant'', 2002)

Awards and nominations

References

1974 births 2002 deaths Turkish male film actors Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners Road incident deaths in Turkey {{Turkey-actor-stub