Kafes

The film takes up the period of the coup of the twelfth of September. The account covers the days before the coup and after it. At its centre is a group of young people. They are taken into custody in that period. In prison they are subjected to torture. The film tells what they went through. The account is built around Mehmet Sipahi and his friends. The social and political air of the period is inside it too. The filming was done in Ankara. Hamamonu and Golbasi are among the locations. Ulucanlar Prison is another of the places used. Ismail Hacioglu and Nilay Duru take the leads, with Sefik Onatoglu and Firat Sahin also in the cast, in Mahmut Kaptan’s Turkish film of 2015.