Kuzey Güney

Kuzey Güney
Genre	Serial drama
Written by	Ece Yörenç Melek Gençoğlu
Directed by	Hilal Saral Mehmet Ada Öztekin Nezaket Çoşkun Sevinç
Starring	Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ Buğra Gülsoy Öykü Karayel Zerrin Tekindor Hale Soygazi Merve Boluğur cagdas onur ozturk Bade İşçil Rıza Kocaoğlu Hazar Ergüçlü Turgay Kantürk
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	80
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kerem Çatay
Production location(s)	Istanbul, Turkey, Tbilisi, Georgia
Release
Original network	Kanal D
Original release	September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07) – June 26, 2013 (2013-06-26)
Chronology
Related shows	Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
External links
Website

Kuzey Güney is a Turkish television drama series. The scenarists are Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The series stars Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kuzey Tekinoğlu, a tough and rebellious son of an Istanbul baker, who comes back from prison four years after he confesses to a crime his brother, Güney, (Buğra Gülsoy) committed.

The series was broadcast on channel Kanal D in Turkey and produced by Ay Yapım.^[1][2] It premiered on September 7, 2011.^[3] Kuzey Güney aired on Wednesday at 8 pm (EEST, UTC+03:00) on Kanal D and from episode 61 onwards at 10 pm (EEST). The final episode was aired on 26 June 2013, after 80 episodes and 2 seasons.

This series was also telecasted in Pakistan on Urdu 1 with great TRPs in Urdu dubbed and is currently being broadcast on Indian television channel Zindagi TV dubbed in Hindi.

Plot

Kuzey Güney is a story of two brothers who fall for the same girl. Kuzey is bold, fearless, and spontaneous. Güney is the exact opposite of Kuzey. He's calm, patient, doesn't act without thinking, and is great in school. The only thing this brothers have in common is their love for Cemre. Cemre is a girl who moved recently to their neighborhood. Kuzey falls in love with Cemre but he didn't know that Güney and Cemre are in love with each other. When Güney and Cemre get together and they are kissing each other, Kuzey is left devastated. A car accident, involving the brothers, takes place where a man is killed. Although Güney was driving the car, Kuzey takes the blame because he didn't want his brother who is a good student go to jail. Kuzey goes to prison for 4 years.

The series starts 4 years later, where Kuzey has been released from prison and comes back to his family and life again. But he soon understands that nothing will be the same as the good old times.

Series overview

Cast

• Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kuzey Tekinoğlu, tough defiant person
• Buğra Gülsoy as Güney Tekinoğlu, Kuzey's brother and businessman, later imprisoned for attempt to kill Kuzey.
• Öykü Karayel as Cemre Çayak, Güney ex-faincée, later marries Kuzey
• Bade İşçil as Banu Sinaner, Atilla Sinaner's daughter, Güney's wife, died from collapsed from atop of building.
• Mustafa Avkıran as 'Sami' Tekinoğlu, baker, father of Kuzey and Güney
• Semra Dinçer as Handan Tekinoğlu, Kuzey and Güney's mother, Sami's ex-wife.
• Zerrin Tekindor as Gülten Çayak, hairdresser, Cemre's mother.
• Ünal Silver as Atilla Sinaner, a rich businessman, father of Banu, Güney's boss, died from heart attack.
• Rıza Kocaoğlu as Ali Güntan, Bazaar merchant, Kuzey's best friend. Killed by Kuzey's enemy, Ferhat.
• Çağdaş Onur Öztürk as Barış Hakmen, Banu's half brother
• Göksen Ateş as Venüs Tezerel, Barış's girlfriend
• Hazar Ergüçlü as Simay Canaş, Kuzey's ex-wife
• Turgay Kantürk as Ferhat, Kuzey's worst enemy, a man his father hired via a prison guard to protect him while he was in prison. Killed by Güney.
• Merve Boluğur as Zeynep, daughter of a photographic studio owner, childhood friend of Cemre, a fashion designer back from Italy and Kuzey's love interest.
• Hale Soygazi as Ebru, Banu and Barış's mother
• Serhat Teoman as Burak Çatalcalı, Banu's half-brother
• Kaan Tasaner as Şeref, a police detective who looks after Kuzey.

Awards

International broadcast

•  Pakistan on Urdu 1

References