At the Bar

At the Bar
At the Bar
	Theatrical film poster
Directed by	Serdar Akar
Written by	Serdar Akar
Produced by	Serdar Akar; Güner Koralı; Alev Gezer
Starring	Nejat İşler; Hakan Boyav; Erdal Beşikçioğlu
Cinematography	Mehmet Aksın
Music by	Selim Demirdelen
Production; company	Kenda Film
Release date	February 2, 2007;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
Box office	1.681.728,00 ₺

At the Bar (Turkish: Barda) is a 2007 Turkish crime drama film, written and directed by Serdar Akar based on a real-life event that happened in Ankara, Turkey in 1997, featuring Nejat İşler as the head of a gang which brutalises, murders and rapes a group of young friends. The film, which went on general release across the country on February 2, 2007 (2007-02-02), was shown in competition at the 26th Istanbul International Film Festival and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.^[1]

Plot

A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish off their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at gunpoint by five strangers. With their mouths, hands and feet tied, they are tortured, raped and murdered until the next morning. The gang who have captured them have no clear reason, they just want to punish these young people for everything left incomplete in their lives.