Endless Love (2015)

Original title

Kara Sevda

Directed by

Hilal Saral

Genre

drama television series, romantic fiction

Country

Turkey

Length

2 seasons, 279 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 706 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy young man and a woman from a poorer background fall deeply in love, but their relationship is challenged by family secrets, social class differences, and a manipulative rival. Over the years, their passion endures through betrayals and painful separations.

melodramaticromanticintenseemotionalslow-burntragicvisually lushheartbreaking

What happens

Endless Love (Turkish: Kara Sevda, literal translation Dark Love) is a Turkish drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Star TV between 2015 and 2017. Directed by Hilal Saral, it stars Burak Özçivit, Neslihan Atagül and Kaan Urgancıoğlu. The series later became a milestone in the international history of Turkish series, receiving the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela in 2017, and becoming the first Turkish series to win the award. Similarly, Kara Sevda received the special jury award at the Seoul International Drama Awards. Four years after the end of Kara Sevda, the series was awarded as The Best International Soap Opera at the Soap Awards France 2021. Burak Özçivit and Neslihan Atagül were the only Turkish actors nominated for Best International Actor and Best International Actress, respectively. According to Can Okan, founder and CEO of Inter Medya, the international distributor of the series, "words are useless when talking about the success of Kara Sevda". It has become one of the most watched Turkish series in the world, being broadcast in more than 110 countries with successful audiences and has been translated into more than 50 languages. During its broadcast in the United States through Univision, it became the most watched foreign soap opera and the Turkish series with the highest audience. Kara Sevda remains the most watched series in Hispanic prime time, with more than 2 million viewers every day, and close to 4 million in its final episode. Such has been the overwhelming success of the series that in the Wax Museum of Tashkent City Park in Uzbekistan, two figures of Kemal and Nihan are exhibited, the main characters of the series, in the part dedicated to Istanbul. Kara Sevda's YouTube channel accumulated almost 3 billion views, being one of the most viewed Turkish series on the platform. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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