Midnight at Pera Palace series continues to create a big event since the day it was broadcast on Netflix. This time, the news came from the Pera Palas Hotel, where the series was filmed.
Midnight at Pera Palas series, starring Hazal Kaya and Selahattin Paşalı, was released on Netflix two weeks ago. The series, which divided the audience into two with its extraordinary story, received both harsh criticism and was highly appreciated.
In addition to the lead actors of the series, Hazal Kaya and Selahattin Paşalı, the Pera Palas Hotel, which is named after and where the shootings were made, also served. According to the reports, after the series “Midnight at Pera Palas” was screened, customers flocked to the hotel in Beyoğlu. Such that, since all rooms are reserved, customers who want to come have to be turned away.
Pera Palace Hotel was opened in 1895. Its goal was to provide a hotel where European tourists who came to Istanbul by the Orient Express train could stay. It was the building where electricity was supplied, the first electric elevator and the first running hot water in Istanbul, outside the Ottoman palaces. Pera Palas Hotel, Turkey’s first hotel in European standards, has witnessed historical events since its establishment and has become one of the most important symbols of urban culture.
One of the most important guests of the hotel, which has hosted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk many times since 1917, was the world-famous British crime novel writer Agatha Christie. It is said that she wrote Murder on the Orient Express, one of the author’s most famous novels, during one of her visits in room 411.
Midnight at Pera Palace series, which tells the story of a journalist traveling through time to the first years of the Republic, was broadcast on Netflix as eight episodes. The series, written by Elif Usman, tells the story of Esra’s struggle to prevent an assassination of Atatürk in 1919 and what happened to her in the meantime. According to Netflix’s data, watching Midnight at Pera Palace has exceeded 25 million hours.