Turkish crime drama 10 Days of a Bad Man, released in 2023, follows a former lawyer whose new career as a private investigator drags his own carefully ordered life apart thread by thread.
What is 10 Days of a Bad Man about?
Sadik left the courtroom behind to work private cases on his own terms, and for a while that choice seemed to buy him a quieter, more controllable existence. The job that pulls him back into trouble looks straightforward at first: a case with the usual tangle of secrets clients want kept hidden. But the deeper Sadik digs, the more the investigation folds back onto his own household, exposing arrangements and choices he had kept buried even from himself. Over the ten days the title references, the film tracks how quickly a stable life can come undone once someone starts asking the wrong questions in the wrong direction, and how a man trained to find other people's secrets is rarely prepared for his own. Director Uluç Bayraktar builds the film as a slow-tightening thriller, letting Sadik's professional detachment curdle into something closer to dread as the case closes in on people he was supposed to protect.
About the cast
Nejat İşler stars as Sadik, with Nur Fettahoğlu, Şenay Gürler, Erdal Yildiz, Ilayda Akdoğan, Hazal Filiz Küçükköse, Riza Kocaoğlu, and Kadir Çermik forming the ensemble around him as the case widens its reach.
Context & significance
10 Days of a Bad Man arrived in 2023 as part of a strong recent run of Turkish crime and mystery cinema, a genre that has built a loyal following well beyond Turkey's own borders for its dense plotting and morally compromised leads. The premise of a legal professional turned investigator gives the film a natural vantage point on how institutions and family secrets intersect, and the ten-day structure keeps the pacing tight rather than letting the mystery sprawl across a looser timeline.
Watching 10 Days of a Bad Man on Ktime
10 Days of a Bad Man is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a fully localized way to follow the case. Browsing the film's page requires nothing; watching it only calls for a free K-Time account, part of a catalogue built for Farsi-language streaming among Iranians living abroad.