Biket İlhan

Biket İlhan, born in Izmir in 1945, is a director and producer who has an important place in Turkish cinema. He became known with the movie Sokaktaki Adam, adapted from Attilâ İlhan's novel, and he achieved an important breakthrough in his career with this movie.

İlhan first worked as an English teacher in Ankara and Izmir. Later, he stepped into the cinema and worked as an assistant in the movie Seni Kalpime Gömdüm directed by Feyzi Tuna. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant to Hüseyin Karakaş, who shot TV series on TRT, and worked in many TV series and films. She separated from Atilla İlhan in 1983 and made her second marriage with theater actor Metin Belgin.

He started directing with the children's TV series "Our Class", shot for TRT. Then he took over the directorship of the TV series Son Umut. İlhan, who directed the films A Glass for You and A Woman's Face, achieved great success with the film Sokaktaki Adam, adapted from Attilâ İlhan's novel. He won national and international awards with this film. He also directed television series such as Teleflaş and Kurtlar Sofrası.

In 1999, he brought Turkish-Greek relations to the big screen with the movie Kayıkçı and this movie was shown in many festivals. İlhan, who started producing in the same year, directed the movie Blue Eyed Giant about the life of Nâzım Hikmet in 2007. In 2012, he talked about the Village Institutes with the movie Miracle Left Unfinished. In 2015, he directed the movie Çelo and wrote the script for this movie.

Biket İlhan has produced many successful films in his directing and producing career and has been recognized on national and international platforms. İlhan, who attracted particular attention with his films Sokaktaki Adam, Kayıkçı and Blue-Eyed Giant, is one of the important names of Turkish cinema.

Biket İlhan was born in Izmir, Türkiye in 1944.

Productions in which he took part

• The Golden Boll (1969) — Presenter
• Her First (2019)
• I Passed Through Sisler Boulevard: Biket İlhan (2025)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.