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Ferzan Ozpetek (Turkey, ), who moved to Italy as a teenager, debuted as a director with Il Bagno Turco/ Hamam (), set in Istanbul, a cross-cultural meditation that transfers a decadent Italian couple into a modernizing and greedy Turkey, thus violating both stereotypes (the Italians are not devout Catholics anymore and the Turks are not traditional backward simpletons anymore).

Ferzan Özpetek.

Ferzan Özpetek.

Ferzan Özpetek.

He is a Turkish-Italian director, screenwriter and writer.

Ferzan Ozpetek borrowed props from his friends to decorate a gay man's home in His Secret Life.

Ozpetek's Letter.

Harem Suare ()

Le Fate Ignoranti/ His Secret Life ()

La Finestra di Fronte/ Facing Windows () is an atmospheric quasi-thriller that focuses on the fate of discriminated groups: gays, Jews, illegal immigrants, and frustrated wives (oppressed, respectively, by bigots, Nazis, authorities and selfish husbands).

Then the film emphasizes the importance of memory, both personal and historical memory, by juxtaposing the way society forgets about the tragedies caused by racism of the past and the way individuals forget about their own life story.

The old man at the center of the pl