Title
Steam : [videorecording] The Turkish bath = Hamam : il bagno turco / Strand Releasing ; Rai Trade ; Marco Risi e Maurizio Tedesco preentano ; soggetto, Ferzan Özpetek ; sceneggiatura, Ferzan Özpetek, Stefano Tummollini ; prodotto da Marco Risi ... [et al.] ; una compartecipazione italo-turca e turco-spagnbola Sorpasso Film (Roma), Promete Films (Istanbul), Asbrell Productions (Madrid) ; regia, Ferzan Özpetek.
Published
[Calif.] : Strand Home Video, 2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.
"Contains scene chaptering and a never before seen music video by the film's director and composer."--Container.
Music, Pivio Aldo di Scalzi ; editing, Mauro Bonanni ; cinematography, Pasquale Mari.
Italian and Turkish with English subtitles.
Summary
"Francesco, a successful designer from Rome, arrives in Istanbul to dispose of an inheritance left him by an aunt he never knew. Once there he discovers that the property is a hamam, a traditional Turkish steam bath, Mehmet, the beautiful son of the hamam's custodian, ushers Francesco into the sultry world of the baths. Enlightened and unbound, Francesco decides to remain in Istanbul and restore the hamam"--Container.
Variant and related titles
Hamam
Bagno turco
Turkish bath
Container title: Steam, the Turkish bath
Format
Images / Video & Film
Added to Catalog
December 19, 2005
Credits
Music, Pivio Aldo di Scalzi ; editing, Mauro Bonanni ; cinematography, Pasquale Mari.
Cast
Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Halil Ergun, Serif Sezer, Mehmet Gunsur, Basak Koklukaya, Alberto Molinari.
Videorecording number
9815-2 Strand Home Video
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Also listed under
Sorpasso Film (Firm)
Promete Film (Firm)
Asbrell Productions.
Strand Releasing (Firm)
Strand Home Video (Firm)