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Ferzan Ozpetek (b. February 3, 1959, Turkey) is a Turkish screenwriter and film director who currently resides in Italy.
Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1958. He moved to Italy in 1977 to
study at the La Sapienza University in Rome. Later he attended
directing courses at the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica "Silvio D’Amico"
in Rome before working as an assistant director with Massimo Troisi,
Maurizio Ponzi, and other Italian directors. Özpetek made his
directorial debut in 1997 with hamam (also released as Il bagno turco
and Steam: The Turkish Bath). The movie garnered considerable critical
success and was later released in USA. His second film Harem Suare' was
a lyrical depiction of the last days of Ottoman Empire.
Ferzan Ozpetek is an openly gay director who deals with sexuality
issues in several of his films. Such is Le Fate Ignoranti (Cahil
Periler in Turkish), a story of a woman (played by Margherita Buy) who
discovered that her late husband had a long-lasting relationship with a
male lover (starring Stefano Accorsi). After being devastated, she
began to build a friendly relationship with him, learning more about
her husband and the secret life he used to spend, in that gay world she
couldn't imagine at all. His La Finestra di fronte (Karşı Pencere in
Turkish) won a Crystal Globe award in Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival. Senior Italian actor Massimo Girotti played his last role in
this film. Another movie is Cuore Sacro, the touching portrait of a
young manager that discovers the way to reach the hidden space in her
soul through her dead mother, and starts dedicating herself in looking
after socially rejected people.
Filmography
Director
- Il Bagno turco (Hamam, 1997)
- Harem Suare' (1999)
- Le Fate ignoranti (His Secret Life, 2001)
- La Finestra di fronte (Facing Windows, 2003)
- Cuore Sacro (2005)
- Saturno Contro (2007)
Assistant director
- Il tenente dei carabinieri (1986)
- Il maestro del terrore (The Prince of Terror- 1988, TV)
- La Scorta (The Bodyguards, 1993)
- Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima (1994)
- Il Branco (1994)
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