Steam: The Turkish Bath
– Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Ins..
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his realtives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
25 Nov 1998
Turkish, Italian
Ferzan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek (story), Ferzan Ozpetek, Stefano Tummolini, Aldo Sambrell
Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün
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..
11 wins & 7 nominations.
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