berlinale

Fetih 1453 screens… Reviews of “Night of Silence” and “Beyond the Hill” Berlinale Forum victors……

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I haven’t seen Fetih 1453 yet but all I hear confirms my prejudices that this is a high budget work of crude neo ottoman nationalist imagination with not much quality. Female viewers did not find the Sultan handsome, too;) Fetih 1453 – IMDb Fetih 1453 (OFFICIAL TEASER) – YouTube Fetih 1453 İstanbul conquered yet again on the … Read more

A cinema roundup: Radikal’s 10 Best Turkish Films of 2010 and more…

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Controversial film on Nursi gets İstanbul gala Today’s Zaman ?Hür Adam? (Free Man), a movie that recounts the life of Said-i Nursi, a Muslim scholar who lived in Turkey from 1876 to 1960, was screened in İstanbul on The modernist tradition in Turkish Islam and Said Nursi by ŞAHİN ALPAY Last week a film by … Read more