At the Bar

{{More citations needed|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = At the Bar | image = Barda poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical film poster | director = Serdar Akar | producer = Serdar Akar<br />Güner Koralı<br />Alev Gezer | writer = Serdar Akar | narrator = | starring = Nejat İşler<br />Hakan Boyav<br />Erdal Beşikçioğlu | cinematography = Mehmet Aksın | music = Selim Demirdelen | editing = | studio = Kenda Film | distributor = | released = {{film date|2007|02|02}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Turkey | language = Turkish | budget = | gross = 1.681.728,00 {{Turkish lira}} }}

'''''At the Bar''''' ({{langx|tr|Barda}}) is a 2007 Turkish horror 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, tortures, murders and rapes a group of young friends. The film, which went on general release across the country on {{start date|2007|02|02}}, was shown in competition at the 26th Istanbul International Film Festival and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.<ref name="HDN01">{{cite web |title=And justice for all |first=Yasemin Sim |last=Esmen |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/h.php?news=and-justice-for-all-2007-02-02 |work=Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review |date=2007-02-02 |accessdate=2010-03-08 }}</ref>

==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.

==Cast== *Nejat İşler – Selim “The Exhaustman” Ketenci *Hakan Boyav – Osman the Pop *Serdar Orçin – 45 *Erdal Beşikçioğlu – Nasır the Villager *Volga Sorgu – The Apprentice *Doğu Alpan – Nail *Burak Altay – TGG *Melis Birkan – Nil *Nergis Öztürk – Sevgi *Sezen Aray – Pelin *Meltem Parlak – Aynur *Şamil Kafkas – Aliş *Salih Bademci – Cenk *Sarp Aydınoğlu – Barbo *Eray Özbal – The Prosecutor

==Festival screenings== * 14th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival * 18th Limak Ankara International Film Festival * 26th International Istanbul Film Festival

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0902955|title=Barda}}

Category:2007 films Category:2007 Turkish-language films Category:2000s Turkish films Category:Films set in Turkey Category:Films set in Istanbul Category:Turkish crime thriller films Category:Turkish horror thriller films Category:Obscenity controversies in film Category:2007 crime thriller films