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Filinta (2014)

Filinta poster
Original title
Filinta: Bir Osmanlı Polisiyesi
Genre
action & adventure, crime
Country
Turkey
Length
2 seasons, 56 episodes
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Set in the Ottoman Empire, this series follows a detective solving crimes in a historical setting. It is a Turkish period drama with a focus on mystery and investigation.

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What happens

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, premiered on TRT1 in Turkey on December 23, 2014. It aired until 2016. As of 2017 it was one of the most expensive television series in Turkey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a source described Filinta as "like a crude Ottoman Downton Abbey". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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