A window washer sniffs out TV gold—literally—and accidentally becomes the king of trash television.
Imdat is a poor, uneducated, working class window cleaner who has migrated to the big city. As he cleans the windows of the private TV channel Kanal I, the president of the channel, Berk, discovers that Imdat has an uncanny ability to sense what program will yield the best ratings and what is likely to be panned by audiences, thus Berk begins milking Imdat's unique ability to score ratings. Soon Imdat finds himself replacing the president and leading the TV channel. He goes on to produce some truly tasteless and exploitative programs that enjoy massive ratings, eventually becoming part of the dirty media games himself.
Acting
Okan Bayülgen's deadpan descent into media monstrosity.
Writing
Savage takedown of ratings-obsessed culture that aged disturbingly well.
Director
Alper Mestçi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film brutally satirizes Turkey's 2000s-era ratings wars, where private channels competed through increasingly sensationalist programming—making it a regional precursor to Black Mirror's media critiques.
Director Alper Mestçi was primarily known for horror before this comedy, which explains the almost grotesque framing of television production as body horror.
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