Kurt Seyit & Sura (Seasons 1–2)

Kurt Seyit & Sura (Kurt Seyit ve Şura, 2014) is a Turkish historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ plays Kurt Seyit, a Crimean Tatar officer in the tsarist army, who meets Şura Verzhenskaya — the daughter of a Russian noble family in Petrograd — under circumstances neither of them planned for.

They are separated by religion, family expectation and social rank; the people around them are not subtle about their objections. What they cannot control is the timing: revolution is coming, the empire is ending, and the decade ahead will not leave much room for what they feel. Farah Zeynep Abdullah carries Şura through the grief and displacement with considerable grace. Director Hilal Saral keeps the political collapse visible in the background without letting it swallow the intimacy — the right instinct for a story that runs on personal stakes against historical ones. Stream Kurt Seyit & Sura (2014) online on iFILM.