Piece of political propaganda

Rating: 2/10 (5 August 2017)

As much that's going on in today's Turkey, this piece is shameless propaganda disguising as a romantic feature. As with all propaganda it reeks of falseness in acting, script, and directing. I was mislead by the high IMDb rating and failed to notice the discrepancy with rotten tomatoes. As I watched the movie, i was incredulous at terrible acting, cliché dialog, and odd plot which made no sense at all. Only as the movie unfolded did I start catching the set up:? it's a whitewash job of the Armenian genocide. A shameless fig leaf for the atrocities committed by the Turks. Once I realized that, all of the oddities fell into place. The movie was made to support one narrative - hey it was war. people died. there were bad turks, good turks, bad armenians, good armenians, stuff happens. look at all that was happening in Europe.
People who made this movie should be ashamed of themselves. I was shocked that Ben Kingsley would take part in this monstrosity.
You can't change history: Turks killed millions of armenian civilians. That's a genocide. You can't deny history.
After the movie, I went to IMDb and looked up the glowing reviews. Sure enough - mostly Turks talking about "historically correct" "great movie". Truly they have no shame.