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| Starring: | Onur Tuna Cem Uçan Damla Aslanalp Mehmet Özgür |
| Composer: | Tamer Çıray |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Language: | Turkish |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 56 (149 on YouTube shortened) |
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Filinta is a Turkish detective fiction television drama series created for TRT1 by Yusuf Esenkal and Serdar Öğretici. Filmed in Seka Park Film studio, it was shot in İzmit in the largest film set ever built in the history of Turkish TV series.
The series, the first detective TV fiction set in the Ottoman period,[1] [2] premiered on TRT1 in Turkey on December 23, 2014. It aired until 2016.[3] it was one of the most expensive television series in Turkey.[3] According to The Hollywood Reporter, a source described Filinta as "like a crude Ottoman Downton Abbey".
| Actor/Actress | Character | |
|---|---|---|
| Onur Tuna | Filinta Mustafa | |
| Cem Uçan | Bıçak Ali | |
| Mehmet Özgür | Kadi Gıyaseddin | |
| Damla Aslanalp | Lara Zaharyas | |
| Nur Fettahoğlu | Süreyya | |
| Berrak Tüzünataç | Farah | |
| Feyza Isik | Gulbahar | |
| Kayra Senocak | Hasan | |
| Kamil Güler | Abdullah Efendi | |
| Serhat Tutumluer | Boris Zaharyas | |
| Ercan Demirel | Hamdi Agha | |
| Hakan Yufkacigil | Çemil Efendi | |
| Hakan Kurtas | Sultan Abdul Hamid | |
| Yosi Misrahi | Esat Pasha | |
| Naz Elmas | Azize | |
| Reshad Strik | Lütfü | |
| Wilma Elles | Anita Von Wilhelm | |
| Duru Alkis | Neslihan Sultan | |
| Serhan Ernak | Çeyrek | |
| Kemal Zeydan | Zeyrek | |
| Kaan Urgancıoğlu | Otto Petroviç | |
| Ali Savascı | Cardinal Fernando | |
| Ceyhun Erçin | Çelebi Rıza | |
| Uğur yildiran | Garbis |
In 2014 Bobby Roth directed extra scenes for the series.[4] "The series' set is one ot Europe's largest television sets and includes an exact replica of the old city of Pera, including its tram; it was built on a 40,000 m2 set (on a 300,000 m2 plot) in Izmit"[5]
The characters of Zeyrek and Çeyrek reappear in he spinoff comedy series Zeyrek ile Çeyrek .[6]
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine have visited the production set, congratulating the production team.
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