''Midnight at the Pera Palace'' (

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: ''Pera Palas'ta Gece Yarısı''), is a 2022

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television series directed by

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starring

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and Selahattin Paşalı. The show was released on

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on March 3, 2022, with the first season consisting of 8 episodes. Centered around the real-life

Pera Palace Hotel The Pera Palace Hotel ( tr, Pera Palas Oteli) is a historic special category hotel and museum hotel located in the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1892 for the purpose of hosting the passengers of the Orient Expr ...

, the series was inspired by the 2014 historical non-fiction book ''Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul'' by Charles King. the series was renewed for a second season which is in filming.

Premise

Esra (

), a young orphaned journalist in modern-day Istanbul, is assigned to write an article about the upcoming 130th anniversary of the

. At the hotel, she meets its manager, Ahmet (

), who shows her around and explains the history of the Pera Palace and some of its famous guests. Esra is particularly intrigued by the story of Peride, a young woman who apparently saved

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from an assassination plot orchestrated by the British in 1919, during the

occupation of Istanbul The occupation of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul'un İşgali; 12 November 1918 – 4 October 1923), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended O ...

. What Ahmet conceals from her is that, in combination with a mysterious key, one of the hotel's rooms becomes a time-travelling portal. That night, Esra accidentally time travels back to 1919, where she is soon mistaken for her apparent doppelganger, Peride. Her encounters with men such as George, a scheming British officer ( James Chalmers), Halit, an enigmatic nightclub owner ( Selahattin Paşalı), and Reşat, a police officer in love with Peride (

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) leave her struggling to know whom to trust. Together with Ahmet, however, she must find a way to stop the assassination attempt on Mustafa Kemal and preserve the course of Turkey's independence.

Cast and characters

as Esra/Peride *

as Ahmet * Selahattin Paşalı as Halit *

as Reşat * Hakan Dinçkol as

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* Yasemin Szawlowski as Sonia * James Chalmers as George * Ahmet Varlı as Dimitri *

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as Eleni * Osman Albayrak as Naim Efendi * Ergün Metin as Fahrettin * Clare Louise Frost as

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References

External links

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