Steam: The Turkish Bath (Hamam - Il Bagno Turco)Hamam

	Carlo Cecchi	Oscar
	Alessandro Gassman	Francesco
	Serif Sezer	Perran
	Francesca d'Aloja	Marta
	Halil Ergün	Osman
	Mehmet Gunsur	Mehmet
	Basak Koklukaya	Fusun
	Alberto Molinari	Paolo
	Zozo Toledo	Zozo
	Ludovica Modugno	Voice of Aunt Anita
	Allessandro Gassman

Director

Ferzan Ozpetek

Producer

Marco Risi
Paolo Buzzi

Writer/Composer

Ferzan Ozpetek
Stepano Tummolini

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 their son and the whole Turkish atmosphere, and decides not to sell the hamam..

Edition Details
Original Title	Hamam - Il Bagno Turco
Distributor	Raro Video USA
Release Date	2011
Screen Ratio	Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	SUB [English]
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	6/22/2016
Location	Personal Library
Owner	Deitz
Store	Amazon
Purchase Price	$20.00
Condition	New
Links	+ Review: NY Times - Review: Roger Ebert ‡ Booklet: Steam: The Turkish Bath, included with DVD Steam: The Turkish Bath at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org

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This is a well crafted endearing film telling a simple truth: that one can find happiness of place, community, mission, and personal friendship -- while there is a gay theme, it does not dominate the drama -- a film well worth seeing.