Hamam
Subtitle: il bagno turco = The Turkish bath
By: Strand Releasing ; Rai Trade ; [presented by] Marco Risi e Maurizio Tedesco ; soggetto, Ferzan Özpetek ; sceneggiatura, Ferzan Özpetek, Stefano Tummolini ; prodotto da Marco Risi ... [et al.] ; una compartecipazione italo-turca e turco-spagnola Sorpasso Film (Roma), Promete Film (Istanbul), Asbrell Productions (Madrid) ; regia, Ferzan Özpetek
Contributors: Gassman, Alessandro, 1965-; D'Aloja, Francesca; Ergün, Halil; Sezer, Serif, 1943-; Günsür, Mehmet, 1955-; Köklükaya, Başak; Cecchi, Carlo, 1939-; De Scalzi, Pivio; De Scalzi, Aldo; Mari, Pasquale; Sorpasso Film (Firm); Promete Film (Firm); Asbrell Productions; Strand Releasing (Firm); Strand Home Video (Firm); Rai Trade (Firm)
Publisher: Strand Home Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Culver City, Calif.]
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781930915053
Subjects: Turkish Baths; Drama; Italians; Male homosexuality; Inheritance and succession; Motion pictures
Other titles: Bagno turco; Turkish bath; Steam, the Turkish bath
Description: "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.
Notes: Place of publication from publisher's website.

Originally produced as an Italian motion picture in 1995.

"Contains scene chaptering and a never before seen music video by the film's director and composer"--Container.

Music, Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi ; editing, Mauro Bonanni ; cinematography, Pasquale Mari.

Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Halil Ergun, Serif Sezer, Mehmet Gunsur, Basak Koklukaya, Alberto Molinari, Zozo Toledo, Carlo Cecchi.

DVD.

Italian and Turkish with English subtitles.