Hamam: The Turkish Bath (1997)

Hamam: The Turkish Bath (1997) Country: Italy, Turkey, Spain Release Year: 1997 Aka: Hamam: el baño turco Director, Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek Writer: Stefano Tummolini, Aldo Sambrell Language: Turkish, Italian Genre: Drama, Romance Runtime: 93 min Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün Studio: Sorpasso Film, Promete Film Asbrell Productions Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119248/

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.