The Hamlet series, which was shot for the digital broadcasting platform Gain TV and starring Erdal Beşikçioğlu, achieved international success even before it was aired. Hamlet will be one of eight films to compete at Series Mania, Europe’s biggest festival.
The Hamlet series, directed by Kaan Müjdeci, will be broadcast on Gain TV in October. The cast of the series, starring Elit İşçan and Erdal Beşikçioğlu, also consists of very impressive names.
In the series called Hamlet, there are master actors such as Şebnem Bozoklu, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Murat Kılıç, Çiğdem Selışık Onat, Cihat Tamer, Serdar Orçin, Emrullah Çakay and Mustafa Alabora.
Adapted from the famous British writer Shakespeare’s novel of the same name, the series will compete in Series Mania, one of the biggest festivals in Europe. Hamlet will compete against seven opponents at Series Mania, the international drama festival. Erdal Beşikçioğlu, the leading actor of the series, announced this great pride by sharing his Twitter account. Beşikçioğlu shared, “It is a great pleasure to compete as one of the 8 TV series at “Series Mania”, the biggest festival in Europe. It’s like the aftershave effect after shaving. We’ll get it,” he challenged his rivals.
Hamlet, the first project from Turkey to be selected for Series Mania, where ambitious productions worldwide compete, will compete with the series of world-leading broadcasters such as HBO Max, ARTE and ZDF from Italy, Iceland, Norway, Germany, France, Israel and Denmark in the International Competition section. The festival, which has become the biggest event in Europe focusing only on TV series since 2011, brings together the professionals of the TV industry.
Based on a true story, the Hamlet series will shed light on the incredible, absurd and striking facts of life and Turkey through the phaeton kingdom on Büyükada. On a night in Büyükada, Istanbul, where 81 horses will be buried, the owner of the carriages is killed. The murderer is his brother.