Fetih 1453 Comes to New York

That year, 19-year-old Fatih Mehmet ascends the Ottoman throne.  Equally green and underestimated, Mehmet hopes to succeed where his father failed: conquest of the elusive Constantinople. Over two years, as Mehmet builds forts and ships, blockades the Bosporus and musters his armies, Emperor Constantine is mindful of the threat and carefully plots against them with his allies.  

On Easter, 1453, tens of thousands of Ottoman soldiers mass at Constantinople’s gates, facing the giant walls of one of the best-protected cities in the world.  In six weeks, the city falls.  The legacy of this conquest is the uneasy coexistence that has persisted between Christian and Muslim cultures in the area for the ensuing 550 years.

This sprawling historical epic not only brings to life the dawn of modern warfare and the birth of the Renaissance, but also of the personalities swirling around the conflict from popes, kings and sultans but a civil engineer, a soldier, and a daughter—as always, the human faces of geopolitical conflict .

Fetih is “remarkable for the entirely unselfconscious way it celebrates war and conquest.” says The International Herald Tribune’s Andrew Finkel.  The film manages to combine blood and battle with a feel-good factor. We shed not a tear for the end of Byzantium. The film might have been pitched to the movie moguls as ‘Troy’ meets ‘Starship Troopers’ meets ‘Shakespeare in Love.’”



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