| Ezel (TV series) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action/Crime/Drama |
| Directed by | Uluç Bayraktar |
| Produced by | Kerem Çatay |
| Written by | Kerem Deren Pınar Bulut |
| Starring | Kenan İmirzalıoğlu Haluk Bilginer Cansu Dere Yiğit Özşener Barış Falay Bade İşçil Sarp Akkaya İpek Bilgin Salih Kalyon Tuncel Kurtiz Burcin Terzioglu Sedef Avci Berrak Tüzünataç |
| Music by | Toygar Işıklı |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| Original channel | ATV Show TV |
| Release date |
28 September 2009 (Turkey) |
| Original airing | 28 September 2009 |
| Running time | 90 minutes (up to 120 minutes with commercials) |
| No. of episodes | 71 |
Ezel is a Turkish crime drama TV series that was initially broadcasted by Show TV in autumn 2009. In 2010, it was transferred to ATV. It has since gained a considerably large fan base in Turkey. Although it is set in modern day Istanbul, Turkey, filming also took place in Bafra, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and Croatia. It appears that after 71 episodes, roughly 90 minutes each (two hours with commercials), the series came to an end after two seasons.
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In 1997 Istanbul, Ömer Uçar (Ismail Filiz) and his family lived a comfortable lower middle-class life, until one day his life was changed forever. Ömer had two best friends that he had known for years, Ali and Cengiz. Ömer worked with Ali (Barış Falay) as a motor mechanic, and Cengiz (Yiğit Özşener) when Ömer met and fell in love with Eyşan (Cansu Dere). Ali and Cengiz soon become convinced by Serdar Tezcan (Salih Kalyon), who is also Eyşan's father, to rob a casino. Serdar devises the whole scheme, and figures that it would require four people to pull off a successful robbery. Cengiz was up first in the plot to rob the casino, he was the mole and was working there in order to gain access. Ali, comes into play next as the ruthless killer on the night of the robbery. The third accomplice is Eyşan (Cansu Dere) the skilled con-woman who manipulates men for their money as a career and this time her victim would be Ömer. In Serdar's plan, Ömer would be the fourth person to complete the job. Ömer is blamed for the robbery by way of implanting false evidence, misleading the police and ceasing all other investigations on the matter. Serdar's primary motive was the money, though his love for a good con also played a role. Eysan's Cengiz' and Ali's motives would be revealed later in the series. Ali and Cengiz at the time believed that Ömer would only get a few years in jail for stealing the money, however the robbery went wrong and Ali had to shoot and kill the security guard. The same gun that was used in the robbery was pointed at Ömer by Cengiz just a few days before the crime. After having too many drinks, Cengiz in a drunken state and wearing gloves pointed the gun at Ömer, after which he manages to take the gun away from Cengiz only to leave his prints on the gun and sealing his fate. Further evidence to implicate Ömer to the crime was a jacket that he had previously worn which was also dumped with the gun ensuring the police a swift arrest.
Eyşan would later testify in court in order to re-establish the evidence and accusations, cementing her betrayal. The plan worked successfully and all the while Ali, Cengiz, Serdar and Eyşan got away with murder and millions of dollars. Ömer went to jail for the crime he didn't commit the day after he proposed to Eyşan. During his incarceration, Ömer had some very hard times, being beaten almost daily by the chief prison warden who was convinced that Ömer had indeed committed the crime, and wanted to know the exact whereabouts of the money. His family was even threatened, and so his hatred for his old friends grew for what they had done to him. Ömer's only luck was to be taken under the wing of Ramiz Karaeski (referred to as Uncle Ramiz, played by Tuncel Kurtiz), once a powerful mafia type figure who treated Ömer like one of his sons and offered him some protection while imprisoned. In 2006, Ömer, had his face badly cut by the chief warden with two other guards by using a riot in the prison as an excuse to beat Ömer, so he would tell where the money was. Ömer pretended to tell him, so that when the warden dismissed the other guards, a fight to the death mean't the head warden was killed. With help from Ramiz, it was made known that Ömer had died but his face was unrecognisable, when actually Ömer escaped the jail and had full plastic surgery. Ömer Uçar then changed his name to Ezel Bayraktar (meaning "eternity" in Turkish), played by Kenan İmirzalıoğlu), and returns to get his revenge, unknown to his previous friends, Eyşan and Cengiz (who are now married and have a son), and Ali (who is head of security at Cengiz's hotel) The once simple boy becomes a man exceptionally skilled at gambling, reading people, fighting, and has considerably high class in society. He is helped by his assistants Kamil (Güray Kip) and Sebnem (Bade İşçil), as well as his prison mentor Ramiz Karaeski. Eysan's motive for framing Omer was to save her sister Bahar's life. Serdar explained to Eysan that Bahar was terminally ill and would need expensive treatment out of the country at better medical facilities, such as in England. The money would be the only way to pay for that treatment. A torn Eysan ultimately chose to send her love to what she thought would be a short prison sentence in exchange for her sister's recovery. Cengiz went along with the plan because he fell in love with Eysan the moment he saw her, and he would do anything she asked. Besides, Cengiz figured that with Omer in prison he would have a clear path to winning Eysan's heart. Ali's motive was the big mystery. Like Eysan, he greatly regretted sending Omer to prison, and much later in the series it was revealed that he did so only at Eysan's prodding. She reminded him that Ali's own father had gone to prison years earlier, having taken the blame for Ali's accidental fatal shooting of a young boy when Ali was a teenager. Ali's father made his son promise him to "become a big man," and so Ali figured his time was running out, and the casino robbery would give him the money and power that would fulfill his promise to his father. As the first season closes, Omer, now Ezel, eventually reveals his identify to his former friends, after he believes that he has punished them enough. A second plot comes to the forefront, however, and intertwines with the first. A new villain emerges, more powerful than Ramiz in terms of connections, considered the most powerful man in Turkey, in fact: Kenan Birkan. It turns out that Ramiz and Kenan were best friends 30 years earlier, bitterly torn apart by their common love interest, Selma. It is also revealed that even though Ramiz genuinely loves Omer/Ezel like a son, part of why he groomed him was to create a good and trustworthy right-hand man to help him battle Kenan. As the second and final season winds to an ultimate conclusion, the plot moves along at a furious pace, with main characters killed off in substantially every episode. In the final episode (71), the only ones left standing are Ezel, Eysan, their young son, Ezel's mother and father, Ali, his wife (Ramiz' daughter) Azad, their baby boy Tevfik aka "Tefo"(named after Ali's deceased right-hand man and dear friend), Bade (Ezel's brief love interest), and Sebnem, Tevfik's widow. Ezel (Omer) and Eysan have recaptured their love, but an insanely jealous Cengiz rapes Eysan and nearly kills her, informing the police that Ezel did it. As she lays in the hospital in critical condition, Eysan reveals that it was Cengiz and not Ezel who did that to her. Meanwhile, Ezel and Ali catch up with Cengiz at a lighthouse and kill him. Ezel then returns to the hospital where the doctors tell him that Eysan has only a few hours left to live. She wants to die in Omer's arms. In a vague and rather metaphysical conclusion, Ezel and Eysan ride on a train as Eysan's eyes close and it appears that she has died. Ezel then drinks some liquid from a ring that Ramiz had given him with the instructions never to "wear the ring" (i.e., drink from it) unless he was ready for a new life. Ezel's eyes also close and he tells Eysan that he is coming to be with her, and that Bahar (who had been killed much earlier in the series) is waiting for them, too. The camera pans to other passengers on the train, the beloved friends and family of Omer and Eysan that had been killed, including Ramiz, Bahar, and Ezel's little brother, Mert. In the final scene, a young man on a motorcycle pulls up to the lighthouse and tells the guard "I am here to see my father." When asked to identify himself, the young man reveals he is Omer's son. As he approaches the door, the camera shows a silhouette of a man opening the door, and making a gesture as if to scratch his head, much like Omer/Ezel used to. The audience is left wondering what really happened. Whether that is Ezel, whether he died on that train with Eysan, or whether he lived. Whether that liquid in the ring was poison or not. Whether or not the train scene, in fact, was real or imagined. That all leaves the possibility of a third season wide open, even though most of the characters have been killed off.
The main villain of the series.Ömer's childhood friend,after the betrayal one of Ezel's worst enemies.Fall in love with his childhood friend's to be fiance then got married with her (Eysan) and loves money.
The second main villain of the series.Ramiz's old friend. junku
Eysan's father,con man and the mastermind of the plan of robbing the casino and killing the security guard for what Ömer got imprisoned.The second main villain of the first season.
Ömer's former boss and good friend.
Grandson of Ramiz Karaeski, has the same name as his grandfather. Raised in lies and deception, he was led to believe his grandfather was responsible for his father's death.
Kenan Birkan's right hand man.
Kenan Birkan's hitman.
| Actor name | role name | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Kenan İmirzalıoğlu | Ezel Bayraktar / Ömer Uçar | The protagonist, in love with Eysan, swore vengeance on the people who betrayed him |
| İsmail Filiz | Ömer Uçar | Played Ömer before the surgery. Appears mainly in flashback scenes |
| Cansu Dere | Eyşan Tezcan Atay | Love interest of Ezel and Cengiz, con woman taught by her father Serdar, in love with Ezel (Ömer) |
| Yiğit Özşener | Cengiz Atay | The main villain of the series, Ezel's chilhood friend, now enemy, in love with Eysan |
| Barış Falay | Ali Kırgız aka Kerpeten Ali | Good-hearted antagonist in 1st Season, later became a good guy to Ezel again, in love with Bahar but after her death, fell in love with Azad |
| Sedef Avcı | Bahar Tezcan | Eyşan's sister, suffering from leucemia, in love with Ezel, Ali's love interest |
| Tuncel Kurtiz | Ramiz Karaeski | Mafia boss, the Godfather, mentored and trained Ezel |
| Haluk Bilginer | Kenan Birkan | The second main villain. Mafia boss, Ramiz's former friend, now nemesis, was in love with selma, in love with eysan |
| Salih Kalyon | Serdar Tezcan | Villain, conman, Eyşan's and Bahar's father |
| İpek Bilgin | Meliha Uçar | Ömer's mother |
| Beyazıt Gülercan | Mümtaz Uçar | Ömer's father |
| Kemal Uçar | Mert Uçar | Ömer's brother, journalist seeking the truth about his brother |
| Burcin Terzioglu | Azad Karaeski | Ramiz's daughter, in love with Ali |
| Sarp Akkaya | Tevfik Zaim | Often called Tefo, Ramiz's and Ezel's man, befriends Ali. In love with Sebnem |
| Bade İşçil | Şebnem Sertuna | Ezel's assistant, in love with Tefo |
| Güray Kip | Kamil Çamlıca | Ezel's right-hand man |
| Bengü Benian | Nükhet Özbağ | Eyşan's Aunt |
| Utku Barış Serma | Can Atay | Ezel and Eysan's son |
| Rıza Kocaoğlu | Temmuz | Kenan Birkan's hitman |
| Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ | Sekiz | Ramiz's grandson |
| Berrak Tüzünataç | Bade | Vur Kaç's barwoman and Ezel's girlfriend |