Karadağlar is a Turkish

Turkey

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 television drama

Dramatic programming

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 loosely based on the novel The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It airs on Show TV

Show TV

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 every week on Monday evenings at 20.00 local time, and is repeated on Wednesdays at 23.00, as well as on Sundays at 16.45.

Overview

Karadağlar is set in the 1930s, when Turkey was suffering the effects of the Great Depression

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

, and it focuses on the generally strained relationships of the landowner, Halit Karadağ, with his sons, as well as the relationships between his sons. Set in the fictional village of Payidar, the series also shows the tensions that exist between the area's rich landowners and poor villagers.

Main characters

Actor	Character in Karadağlar	Corresponding character in The Brothers Karamazov
Erdal Özyağcılar Erdal Özyagcilar Erdal Özyağcılar is a Turkish actor. He has appeared in films, on the stage and on television.- Biography :Özyağcılar was born in 1948 in Bursa. He started his acting career in 1967, with the movie "Ölüm Tarlası" . He is a theater artist as well as a screen actor, who had roles in many plays,...	Halit Karadağ	Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
İbrahim Çelikkol	Gülali Karadağ	Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov
Korel Cezayirli	Kadir Karadağ	Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov Alyosha Karamazov Alyosha Karamazov is the protagonist in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His full name is given as Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov and he is also referred to as Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers,...
Burak Sağyaşar	Selahattin Karadağ	Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov
Ahmet Rıfat Şungar	Cemal	Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov
Hatice Şendil	Gülhayat	Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova
Zeynep Özyağcılar	Nazlı	Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva
Gökhan Mete	Seyit	Grigory Vasilyevich Kutuzov
Güzin Özyağcılar	Esma Kadın	Marfa Ignatyevna
Hale Akınlı	Marika
Aliona Bozbey	Zuhal

Episodes

No.	Title	Air date
1	Episode 1	8 November 2010
2	Episode 2	15 November 2010
3	Episode 3	22 November 2010
4	Episode 4	29 November 2010
5	Episode 5	6 December 2010
6	Episode 6	13 December 2010
7	Episode 7	20 December 2010
8	Episode 8	27 December 2010
9	Episode 9	3 January 2011
Zuhal and Kadir fall out over Kadir's insistence on returning home. Selahattin is tortured by men hired by his father. Halit is told by Cemal that Gülhayat went with Gülali to his home. Gülali starts a fight in Marika's nightclub.
10	Episode 10	10 January 2011
11	Episode 11	17 January 2011
12	Episode 12	24 January 2011
13	Episode 13	31 January 2011
Kadir has doubts about his marriage to Zuhal once again. Selahattin prevents Nazlı from committing suicide. Halit proposes to Gülhayat and is accepted by her, although she has revenge rather than romance in mind. He also hires Nafiz to kill Gülali. Halit and Gülhayat begin their wedding, but some unknown person is pointing a gun at Halit.
14	Episode 14	7 February 2011
Halit is shot at his wedding ceremony just after Gülhayat refuses to marry him. He later recovers, and suspects one of his sons of having shot him. Selahattin proposes to Nazlı. She reluctantly accepts his proposal, but comes to regret having accepted it at all. Gülhayat tries to return to Gülali, who Nafiz has failed to kill, but he spurns her, and she tatically makes peace with Halit.

External links

• Show TV page dedicated to the series

• The website karadaglar.gen.tr exclusively devoted to the series