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Inside (İçerde)

Inside (İçerde) (translated)

TV Series · 2016–2017 · 33 people

Ay Yapım produced İçerde, a Turkish television series mixing action, crime and drama. It builds on the Hollywood film The Departed, itself rooted in a Chinese film, and carries its double game to Istanbul. The series began on Show TV on September 19, 2016, ran for one season of 39 episodes and ended on June 19, 2017. Critics were mixed, yet the performances of leads Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli were praised.

At the heart of the story are two brothers separated in childhood. Sarp (Çağatay Ulusoy), raised inside the police, is asked by an Istanbul chief to infiltrate a mafia gang. He accepts in order to settle accounts with the gang's boss, Celal (Çetin Tekindor), who kidnapped his little brother and used the boy to keep their father quiet. Meanwhile Mert Karadağ (Aras Bulut İynemli), Celal's adopted son, is planted in the police as the gang's eyes, and is in fact the child taken some twenty years earlier. The brothers clash without knowing who the other is, and that drives the series. The cast includes Mustafa Uğurlu as Chief Yusuf and Bensu Soral.

Uluç Bayraktar directed, with Kerem Çatay and Pelin Diştaş producing. Episodes run about 140 minutes, and it was also shown in Romania on Happy Channel and TDC.

DirectorUluç Bayraktar
Production companyAy Yapım
NetworkShow TV

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Alp Özgür Yaşin Alp Özgür Yaşin Actor · 40 years old Selami Aras Bulut İynemli Aras Bulut İynemli Actor · 36 years old Mert Karadağ Barış Kıralioğlu Barış Kıralioğlu Actor · 40 years old Musa Bensu Soral Bensu Soral Actor · 35 years old Melek Beran Soysal Beran Soysal Actor · 38 years old Gökhan Çağatay Ulusoy Çağatay Ulusoy Actor · 36 years old Sarp Çetin Tekindor Çetin Tekindor Actor · 81 years old Celal Damla Colbay Damla Colbay Actor · 33 years old Eylem Deniz Gürzumar Deniz Gürzumar Actor · 36 years old Barış Emre Erçil Emre Erçil Actor · 55 years old Ercan Kesal Ercan Kesal Actor · 67 years old Köstenceli Akın Işık Esra Kılıç Esra Kılıç Actor · 35 years old Fulya Feyyaz Duman Feyyaz Duman Actor · 44 years old Gözde Kansu Gözde Kansu Actor · 46 years old Yeşim İlber Uygar Kaboğlu İlber Uygar Kaboğlu Actor · 22 years old Mustafa Kübra Süzgün Actor · 17 years old Mehmet Yılmaz Ak Mehmet Yılmaz Ak Actor · 40 years old Yaşar Melin Deniz Actor · 18 years old Küçük Melek Mustafa Uğurlu Mustafa Uğurlu Actor · 70 years old Chief Yusuf Mustafa Yıldıran Mustafa Yıldıran Actor · 46 years old Nihal Koldaş Nihal Koldaş Actor · 70 years old Füsun Orçun Koray Kaygusuz Orçun Koray Kaygusuz Actor · 42 years old Rıza Kocaoğlu Rıza Kocaoğlu Actor · 47 years old Davut Şenay Gürler Şenay Gürler Actor · 60 years old Leyla Seyithan Özdemir Seyithan Özdemir Actor · 47 years old Minik Tuba Ünsal Tuba Ünsal Actor · 44 years old Handan Uğur Yıldıran Uğur Yıldıran Actor · 45 years old Uğur Yücel Uğur Yücel Actor · 69 years old Kudret Sönmez Yıldıray Şahinler Yıldıray Şahinler Actor · 58 years old Alyanak Hasan Levent Can Levent Can Actor · 55 years old Haluk Selim Erdoğan Selim Erdoğan Actor · 54 years old Ömer Elçin Afacan Elçin Afacan Film actor · 35 years old Gulcin Nebil Sayın Nebil Sayın Actor · 55 years old Coşkun

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Two brothers separated in childhood, one a cop and one the mafia's hidden eye: when they come face to face the tension rises by itself. The performances of Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli drew praise, and the double-game idea is right up my alley. Because episodes run about 140 minutes, the pace can sag at times, and for an impatient viewer that length is a challenge. Still, it is good that it goes the distance within a single season.

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

Icerde (Inside) carries Hollywood's The Departed, a story that itself grew out of a Chinese film, to İstanbul. The test of an adaptation is whether it can fit the logic of its source into a local setting. Critics reacted in mixed fashion, it should be said, but the two leads' performances were praised. Episodes of 140 minutes demand a feature-film rhythm, otherwise filler is unavoidable, and how fully the script fills that time is debatable. Even so, the double-game structure offers a sturdy skeleton. The interplay between Çağatay Ulusoy and Aras Bulut İynemli is the production's strongest card, and the two brothers meeting without knowing each other gives scene construction a good ground for tension.

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

To my taste, it is a rather harsh and dark world. The brothers being parted as children and meeting years later, though, recalls the theme of the old melodramas, and in that respect it holds you. Having names like Çetin Tekindor in the cast is reassuring too. But the cold air of the mafia and police world is foreign to the warmth of the classics. If you can attach yourself wholeheartedly to the two brothers' story, that reservation eases. Still, that the two lead actors drew praise suggests the story's emotional side was also taken seriously.

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