Production
Period detail that screams 'we spent the budget on costumes.'
Acting
Hülya Avşar serving melodramatic commitment no matter the script.

Director
Murat Saraçoğlu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hülya Avşar was already a massive Turkish pop culture queen by 2011 — casting her guaranteed box office despite that brutal 2.8 rating.
The film touches on Turkey's 1940s prison system, loosely inspired by real incarceration practices of the era under single-party rule.