In the wake of the growing interest in Turkish cinema, local film-makers have decided to use the opportunity and pay attention to foreign audiences that they can shoot not only the "soap operas", but historical adventure drama. The series "One day in the Ottoman Empire" began to emerge in 2012, this is quite a bold bid for qualitatively different serial films that Turkey has to offer today.

Cloth stories

The action of the series, "One day in the Ottoman Empire" is set in 1729, when the once vast and powerful Ottoman Empire, weakening, begins to break down the inside and outside, under the influence of the increasing power of the neighboring states and an unstable economy. Law of the country Sultan Ahmed. Ahmed called the wise ruler, able to save the Ottoman Empire, so the Persians who are interested to sit on the throne of his ruler, conspiring, plunging him inner circle Ahmed. To support the conspirators, the Persian authorities sent to the Ottoman Empire group of trusted people, the army now, their goal - to organize a revolt within the country and move Ahmed.

Drama in the future

Subject plots, battles and revolutions that attempted to cover creators - directors Ezel Akay and Altan Dёnmez - is a huge historical and artistic canvas, covered with hundreds of line-possible developments, a variety of characters and relationships, which they are linked.

The audience appears the wrong side of court life: the sultan, who are unable to trust his entourage, because among them there are traitors, loyal people who put themselves at risk of being poisoned or slaughtered for their loyalty, the harem, which has always been a hotbed of gossip and deceit, but at a time when the empire is in danger, concubines are another way to get closer to the Sultan to deliver a decisive blow.

The series "One day in the Ottoman Empire" is imbued with a sense of expectation of danger, which is stronger than any present or apparent danger. The plot is brewing, the heroes can only wait in the dark, trying to predict the next moves of the enemy to destroy the evil plans. Only for one-up followed by another and another, the scenario is gradually unfolds before the audience multi-pass game of chess with the protagonists on the spot shapes. Cinematic and thoughtfully handed it growing sense of inevitability state of turmoil, lack of faith and humility of one other.

Salvation Empire

"Once in the Ottoman Empire" - has one season of twenty episodes, however, the author's idea is that each series lasts almost one hundred minutes. A risky move for directors, not every viewer to agree to spend at the screen for two hours. Change the duration of the series, however, it allows you to dive deeper into the narrative, to journey along with the characters in the depths of history, in the era of directly affect the future of Turkey. In the series are busy actors like Turkan Shore Oykyu Kelik, Aslı Tandoğan, Jemal Hyun, Firat Tanysh, Tolga Karel, Ayfer Dёnmez, Ёykyu Celik, Kerem Atabeyoglu, Nazim Kёrmyukchu, Melike Ёdzhala and others.

At home, the TV series "One day in the Ottoman Empire" won the love of the audience for respect for the history, the colorful and narrative plausibility. The authors of the project was able to use historical sources in order to create on-screen drama full of events, intrigue and intense interchanges.

If the "Magnificent Century" - a series aimed at a female audience, the "day of the Ottoman Empire," written and filmed for men: there all the focus is on politics, battles, intrigues, for full-fledged romantic lines virtually no room left. For many foreign viewers this series will demonstrate Turkish cinema with the other hand. "Once in the Ottoman Empire," not "soap opera" - it is a serious historical drama, which, of course, does not compete with American or British series, but this is a great alternative with the national colors, which will be of interest to anyone interested in Turkey or history.

Anna Chizh

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