''Hunting Season'' ( tr, ) is a 2010 Turkish

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, written and directed by

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, which stars

Şener Şen Şener Şen (born 26 December 1941) is a Turkish film and theatre actor who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in '' Mr. Muhsin'' (1985) and '' Lovelorn'' (2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for '' Çö ...

and Cem Yılmaz as two policemen who team up with a rookie to investigate a murder case. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , was one of the highest grossing

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and was released in six European countries in addition to Turkey.

Plot

Veteran homicide cop Ferman (

) and his hot-headed partner İdris ( Cem Yılmaz) team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan (

Okan Yalabık Okan Yalabık (born 13 December 1978) is a Turkish actor. He graduated theater at Istanbul University State Conservatory and master of Film and Drama in Kadir Has University. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2001. Life and career ...

) to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, who might have killed her for honor, her drug-dealing boyfriend and aged billionaire Battal (

Çetin Tekindor Çetin Tekindor (born 16 July 1945) is a Turkish actor. Biography Çetin Tekindor was born in 1945 in Sivas. After studying theatre at the Ankara State Conservatory, he made his professional acting debut in a play ''IV. Murat'' in 1970. Beside ac ...

) who had taken the victim as his second wife.

Cast

- Ferman, surnommé « Chasseur » * Cem Yılmaz - İdris, surnommé « le Fou » *

- Battal Çolakzade *

Melisa Sözen Melisa Sözen (born 6 July 1985) is a Turkish actress. Biography Starting her professional career at the very early age of 15, she studied in theatre department of Pera Fine Arts High School. Sözen starred in many Turkish TV hits including ''Ç ...

- Asiye *

- Çömez Hasan *

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- Murat Öneş * Rıza Kocaoğlu - Asit Ömer * Nergis Çorakçı - Hatun *

Mustafa Avkıran Mustafa Avkıran (born 3 March 1963) is a Turkish actor. Avkıran graduated from Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in 1983. He then joined the cast of Istanbul State Theatre. Eventually he received his master's degree from Mimar Sinan Uni ...

- Müslüm

Release

The film opened in 652 screens across Turkey on at number one in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of

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2,697,707.

Reception

Box office

The film was number one at the Turkish box office for five-weeks running and has made a total gross of

12,160,978.

References

External links

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