At the Bar is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 Turkish

Cinema of Turkey

Turkish cinema is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, expatriates across Europe, and in rare cases, the USA....

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

, written and directed by Serdar Akar based on a real life event that happened in Ankara, Turkey in 1997, featuring Nejat İşler

Nejat İşler

-Biography:Nejat İşler was born in Eyüp, İstanbul. He studied at Cağaloğlu Anadolu High School where he joined the theatre group. He did the photography course for two years at Yıldız Technical University before serving his military service. After finishing it, he worked for some time as a salesman...

 as the head of a gang which brutalises, murders and rapes a group of young friends. The film, which went on general release across the country on , was shown in competition at the 26th Istanbul International Film Festival and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.

Plot

A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish of their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at gunpoint by five strangers. With their mouths, hands and feet tied, they are tortured, raped and murdered until the next morning. The gang who have captured them have no clear reason, they just want to punish these young people for everything left incomplete in their lives.

Cast

• Nejat İşler
  Nejat İşler
  -Biography:Nejat İşler was born in Eyüp, İstanbul. He studied at Cağaloğlu Anadolu High School where he joined the theatre group. He did the photography course for two years at Yıldız Technical University before serving his military service. After finishing it, he worked for some time as a salesman...
  
   – Egzozcu Selim
• Hakan Boyav – Patlak Osman
• Serdar Orçin
  Serdar Orçin
  -Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   – 45
• Erdal Beşikçioğlu
  Erdal Beşikçioğlu
  - Biography :Erdal Beşikçioğlu attended İzmir Özel Türk College and Mehmet Seyfi Eraltay High School after which he studied at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory. He participated in creative workshops with William Gaskill among others. Upon graduating, he started working in several state...
  
   – Nasır
• Volga Sorgu – Çırak
• Doğu Alpan – Nail
• Burak Altay – TGG
• Melis Birkan
  Melis Birkan
  Melis Birkan is a Turkish actress.She studied ballet and modern dance at the state conservatory of Mimar Sinan University. Recently she acted in Çağan Irmak's films Ulak and Issız Adam.- External links :...
  
   – Nil
• Nergis Öztürk – evgi
• Sezen Aray – Pelin
• Meltem Parlak – Aynur
• Şamil Kafkas – Aliş
• Salih Bademci – Cenk
• Sarp Aydınoğlu – Barbo
• Eray Özbal – Savcı

Festival Screenings

• 14th Antalya Golden Boll Film Festival
• 18th Limak Ankara International Film Festival
• 26th Istanbul International Film Festival