A prison guard's routine assignment turns into something far more personal in Beni Cok Sev, once the inmate he is escorting makes it clear he has no interest in a quiet homecoming.
What is Beni Cok Sev about?
Sedat works as a guard at a prison in Konya, and one ordinary day he is handed an ordinary-sounding task: take a prisoner named Musa back to his hometown. Musa, though, has no plans to slip quietly back into civilian life. For years he has wanted answers about the circumstances surrounding his daughter's death, and this trip is his one real chance to chase them down, whatever it ends up costing him or the guard assigned to watch over him. What starts as paperwork and procedure turns, mile by mile, into a tense, unspoken negotiation between duty and grief. Sedat has to weigh how far he is willing to bend the rules for a man he barely knows, while Musa has to weigh how far he is willing to go to finally understand what happened to his daughter. By the time the road runs out, neither man is quite who he was at the start of it.
About the cast
Sarp Akkaya and Aleyna Özgeçen head the cast, with Ercan Kesal, Ushan Çakır, Songül Öden, Füsun Demirel and Güner Özkul completing the ensemble around them.
Context & significance
Director Mehmet Ada Öztekin builds the film around two people confined together, first by circumstance and later by something closer to trust, and lets tension come from proximity rather than incident. Made in Turkey and released in 2021, it belongs to a Turkish drama tradition that favors long stretches of road and conversation over spectacle. The fuller two-hour running time, 124 minutes in all, gives the central relationship room to shift gradually rather than all at once.
Watching Beni Cok Sev on Ktime
Beni Cok Sev is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and it comes with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever fits them best. The site itself, including this page, is free to browse in Farsi; a paid subscription is what unlocks playback.