Steam: The Turkish Bath

(1997)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 154 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1997

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: Spain, Italy

Director: Ферзан Озпетек

Cast: Alessandro Gassmann, Мехмет Гюнсюр, Francesca D'Aloja, Halil Ergün, Şerif Sezer, Başak Köklükaya, Carlo Cecchi, Alberto Molinari, Зеррин Арбаш, Ludovica Modugno

Plot

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.

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..