The Bad Seed
1963, Turkish. Directed by Nevzat Pesen.
Alev seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. When her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic her mother starts to suspect that Alev was responsible.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Turkish
- Rated
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- Released
- 6 November 1963
- Original title
- Kötü Tohum
- Country
- Turkey
- Written by
- Nevzat Pesen, Maxwell Anderson
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The Bad Seed runs 105 minutes (1h 45m).
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The Bad Seed isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 November 1963. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Bad Seed?
The Bad Seed (1963) was directed by Nevzat Pesen and stars Alev Oraloğlu, Lale Oraloğlu, Nedret Güvenç.