Hamam - The Turkish bath
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hamam - The Turkish bath |
| Original title | Il bagno turco |
| Country of production | Italy , Turkey , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ferzan Özpetek |
| script | Ferzan Özpetek Stefano Tummolini |
| production |
Marco Risi Maurizio Tedesco |
| music |
Aldo De Scalzi Pivio |
| camera | Pasquale Mari |
| cut | Mauro Bonanni |
| occupation | |
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Hamam - The Turkish Bath (Il bagno turco) is an Italian-Turkish-Spanish film by Ferzan Özpetek from 1997.
action
Francesco and Marta are a yuppie couple who run an interior design company in Rome. They don't want to admit it yet, but their marriage seems to be over.
Her life experiences a turning point when Francesco's aunt Anita, who lived in Istanbul , dies . Francesco travels to Turkey to settle the estate. There he learns to his amazement that Anita's legacy also includes a once famous, but now run-down and closed hammam , a Turkish bath. The hoped-for quick processing does not materialize. Instead, Francesco falls more and more under the spell of Istanbul life, the hammams and last but not least that of Mehmet, the son of his aunt's steward family.
When Francesco learns that the hammam and the surrounding district are to be bought by building speculators who want to build a shopping center there, he decides not to sell and instead renovates and re-opens the hammam.
Marta travels to Istanbul to tell Francesco that she is having an affair with his business partner and wants a divorce. She is surprised at how much Francesco has changed, and wavers about her plan. But when she finds out that Francesco has started an affair with Mehmet, she wants to leave on the spot.
When Francesco, who has made enemies by refusing to sell to the speculators, is murdered, however, she decides to stay in Istanbul and run the hammam herself.
criticism
“A directorial debut that draws on the intimate knowledge of both worlds, but whose attempt to create a style of its own from neorealism and Turkish melodrama fails. Although central motifs can only be seen from the off, revealing miniatures about cultural differences are still possible. "
Awards
- Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 1997: Best Film
Web links
- Hamam - The Turkish Bath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamam - The Turkish bath. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .