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Ibrahim Celikkol | ... | ||
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Dilek Serbest | ... |
Era
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Cengiz Coskun | ... | |
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Erden Alkan | ... | |
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Recep Aktug | ... | |
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Raif Hikmet Cam | ... |
Aksemseddin
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Naci Adigüzel | ... |
Granduk Notaras
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Sedat Mert | ... |
Zaganos Pasha
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Mustafa Atilla Kunt | ... |
Sahabettin Pasha
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Ozcan Aliser | ... |
Saruca Pasha
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Yilman Babaturk | ... |
Ishak Pasha
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Murat Sezal | ... |
Isa Pasha
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Faik Aksoy | ... |
Karaca Pasha
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Huseyin Santur | ... |
Baltaoglu Suleiman Pasha
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In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire continues to grow rich. After years of tolerating the existance of Byzantium, the ambitious sultan, Mehmet II launches his campaign to end the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for the Ottomans, resulting in arguably the greatest siege of that age. Written by conor845
Almost everything in the movie, is very blown up: Costumes, characters, places... Not everything fits to what really happened back then, nor does it have to. But that doesn't mean that the director has the right to irritatingly twist history in favor of conservatives in Turkey.
He falsely presents Emperor Mehmet II as a superhero that makes almost no mistakes, and as a monogamous person. Of course, the facts that he was a wine drinker, a lover of ancient Greek and Roman arts, that he let the city to be sacked for two days, he hanged one of his viziers, and killed all his brothers and made a law that allows and suggests his successors to kill their brothers "for continuation of the state", were all ignored! And we see "the enemies" always speak with a sneaky voice which shows that they're the coward and evil guys. Byzantine Emperor has a weird "digital palace" that has numberless columns, and lives in corruption. War scenes and military costumes are so unrealistic, as well... The list goes on.
Shortly, what I saw was a religious, peasant point of view and a foolish sublimation of Ottoman history. That's what happens with big budget and very limited mentality.