Hamam (film)
- Alessandro Gassman: Francesco
- Francesca d' Aloja: Marta
- Carlo Cecchi: Oscar
- Halil Ergün: Osman
- Serif Sezer Perran
- Günsur Mehmet Mehmet
Hamam - The Turkish Bath ( Il bagno turco ) is an Italian- Turkish- Spanish film directed by Ferzan Ozpetek from the year 1997.
Action
Francesco and Marta are a yuppie couple who run an interior design company in Rome. Yet they want it does not admit, but their marriage is at the end.
Your life undergoes an incision, as Francesco's Aunt Anita dies, who lived in Istanbul. Francesco travels to Turkey to settle the estate. There, he learns to his astonishment that the legacy of Anita also includes a once-famous but now rundown and closed Hammam, a Turkish bath. The hoped-for quick settlement is not made. Instead, Francesco gets more and more under the spell of Istanbul life, hammams and last but not least, Mehmet, the son of the steward his aunt's family.
When Francesco learns that the hammam and the entire surrounding area has to be bought by speculators who want to build a shopping center there, he decides not to sell and instead to renovate the hammam and re-open.
Also Marta travels to Istanbul to open Francesco, that she has an affair with his business partner and wants a divorce. She is surprised how much Francesco has changed, and is in its decision to falter. But when she finds out that Francesco has started an affair with Mehmet, she wants to be rushed to Rome depart.
Francesco has made with his refusal to sell his inheritance to the speculators and enemies is murdered. Then Marta remains in Istanbul and decided to continue the hammam itself.
Reviews
" Directorial debut, which draws from the intimate knowledge of both worlds, but its attempt to gain from neorealism and Turkish melodrama own style fails. Although central motifs become apparent only from the off, yet succeed revealing miniatures on cultural differences. "
Awards
- Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 1997: Best Film