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Love and Punishment (Aşk ve Ceza)

Love and Punishment (Aşk ve Ceza) (translated)

TV Series · 2010–2011 · 24 people

Early 2010 saw Aşk ve Ceza ("Love and Punishment") begin on atv as a Turkish drama and romance. It starts when a young woman is betrayed by the man she loves, and grows into a love story shaped by fate and chance meetings. The show aired from January 5, 2010, to June 27, 2011, over two seasons and 62 episodes. From 2011 it was shown in more than 43 countries, with channels in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Georgia and Slovenia among them.

The heroine is Yasemin, a 29-year-old advertising employee. When she learns that her fiancé Mehmet has been seeing someone else, her world collapses. She goes to Bodrum, where she meets a man named Savaş, and that meeting changes her course. Another strand is set in Van, where Çiçek is preparing to marry Kemal Baldar. When Savaş loses his brother and father in a road accident, the paths of the two lead characters cross. Nurgül Yeşilçay, Murat Yıldırım and Feride Çetin star, with Uğur Yücel, Nazan Kesal and Taner Barlas also in the cast.

TMC Film produced the series from a script by Yıldız Tunç, and Kudret Sabancı directed it throughout. It was shot in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul.

DirectorKudret Sabancı
Production companyTMC Film
Networkatv

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Two seasons, 62 episodes: Aşk ve Ceza is just the right length. The chemistry between Nurgül Yeşilçay and Murat Yıldırım is its strongest card, and Feride Çetin rounds out the lead trio solidly. The two storylines, moving between Bodrum and Van, feel a little disconnected at first, but the show opens up as the paths cross. Names like Uğur Yücel and Nazan Kesal keep the supporting cast strong. Yes, there are moments that lean too hard on coincidence, but if you like romantic drama you'll get through it in no time.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

A young woman betrayed, fate, coincidence and a new chapter opening in another town: Aşk ve Ceza brings the familiar stuff of Yeşilçam melodrama to today's screen. The story, moving between Bodrum and Van, recalls the meeting of different worlds in our old films, and it is a pleasure to find an actor as strong as Uğur Yücel in the cast. Only, stretching across more than sixty episodes a feeling the old masters conveyed in a single screening does, at times, water that feeling down.

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

The dramatic structure of Aşk ve Ceza rests on fate and chance encounters. That is legitimate ground for melodrama, but the script leans too heavily on coincidence to bring its characters together, and dramatic causality suffers. Joining the two parallel storylines in Bodrum and Van through a road accident is a plotting choice that serves the needs of the story more than the characters' motivations. On the other hand, Kudret Sabancı directing the whole run alone gives the visual language consistency, and shooting in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul lends the settings authenticity. Nurgül Yeşilçay and Murat Yıldırım manage to carry the material through their performances.

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