Hamam: The Turkish Bath

IMDb link: 0119248
IMDb rating: 6.8 (7,898 votes)
Genres: Drama, Romance
Director: Alessandro Gassman, Ferzan Ozpetek
Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Francesca d'Aloja, Halil Ergun and others

Release date: 25 Nov 1998
Release year: 1997
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: Italy, Turkey, Spain
Keywords: homosexual, gay, homosexuality, man cheats on wife with man, gay interest, gay cinema, lgbtq film, uncle nephew relationship, rome italy, rain

Plot:

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..

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