Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam (Steam: The Turkish Bath) is the kind of film where the setting does the seducing. A Roman designer named Francesco heads to Istanbul to offload a traditional bath his late aunt left him, and…



Ferzan Özpetek is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, born in Istanbul on February 3, 1959. He has lived in Italy since the 1970s, where he studied cinema at Sapienza University.