THE CAGE

KAFES

By Cemil AĞACIKOĞLU

SEZZFILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2020

After getting expelled unjustly from his job, an ex-police officer fights to clear his name to join back to the force but struggles to overcome the paranoia and darkness growing in him.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Cemil AĞACIKOĞLU
    • Producer(s)
    • Sezgi ÜSTÜN SAN (Sezzfilm)
    • Synopsis
    • After losing his job, ex-police officer Hasan starts to work and live in a motel where the other residents are the poor old people and immigrant sex workers in back-alleys of İstanbul. Hasan becomes friends with one of them, İlona, in her late 50s.
      Hasan wants to save enough money to hire a lawyer, clean his name and return to police force. He follows around his police mate Yahya, suspecting that Yahya has set a trick to him to get him expelled from the police force. Murder in the neighborhood and the disappearance of İlona lead Hasan to darker thoughts. In the moment of despair, he asks help from Yahya. But Yahya rejects him without showing any remorse. Hasan keeps losing his faith in justice and he decides to settle his account with Yahya himself. They meet for one last time.