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Steam

Country: Italy | Turkey | Spain, Language: Turkish | Italian, 94 mins

Original Title

Hamam: The Turkish Bath
  • Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
  • Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek
  • Producer: Paolo Buzzi; Cengiz Ergun

CGiii Comment

Ozpetek's debut - an impressive start to an impressive career.

The dark atmospheric beauty, the modern tradition of culture, the exquisite soundtrack all help the characters change from the repellant to the kind

This will move you with subtle grace - it will leave you warm, numb and changed.

Ozpetek is a craftsman, a sculptor of characters, 3 dimensional and soulful.

A remarkable debut indeed.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Francesco and Marta are husband and wife running a small design company in Rome. When Francesco's long forgotten Aunt Anita dies in Istanbul, he travels there to look after the sale of the hamam (one of a few traditional Turkish baths left) he inherited. There he meets the family running the hamam, gets attracted to a member of it and the whole Turkish atmosphere and decides not to sell the hamam...

Cast & Characters

Alessandro Gassman as Francesco;
Francesca d'Aloja as Marta;
Carlo Cecchi as Oscar;
Halil Ergun as Osman;
Serif Sezer as Perran;
Mehmet Gunsur as Mehmet;
Basak Koklukaya as Fusun;
Alberto Molinari as Paolo;
Zozo Toledo as Zozo;
Ludovica Modugno as Voice of Aunt Anita;
Zerrin Arbas; Necdet Mahfi Ayral;
Murat Ilker;
Alper Kul as Italian