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Ferzan Ozpetek
Birth at
3 February 1959
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Ferzan Ozpetek is an Italian screenwriter and director of Turkish origin. Ferzan is bisexual and often raises issues of sexuality in his films. In 1976, Ferzan moved to Italy as a correspondent for a Turkish publication, graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome, where he studied filmmaking and art history, then studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art. Ozpetek worked in the “Living Theatre” by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, began in cinema as an assistant director. Ferzan worked as an assistant
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Ferzan Ozpetek is an Italian screenwriter and director of Turkish origin. Ferzan is bisexual and often raises issues of sexuality in his films.
In 1976, Ferzan moved to Italy as a correspondent for a Turkish publication, graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome, where he studied filmmaking and art history, then studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art.
Ozpetek worked in the “Living Theatre” by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, began in cinema as an assistant director. Ferzan worked as an assistant to such filmmakers as Maurizio Ponzi and Massimo Troisi, took part in the plays of Julian Beck’s Living Theatre. Ferzan’s debut took place with the film “Turkish Bath” in 1997. The film received the recognition of film critics, and was later shown in the United States of America.
The second film of the director called
"Last harem" He spoke of his tragic love in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Being an open homosexual, Ozpetek did not hide in his own tapes disturbing his relationship between men. In the end, in the painting.
"Fairy of misunderstanding" He told the story of a woman who found out that her husband had a lover for a long time, but after a devastating breakup, she tried to understand the world of the secret life of the “blues”.
In 2003, the drama “Window opposite” was released, which won an award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and the role of eighty-four-year-old Massimo Girotti was the final in his filmography. In 2005, in the film “Pain of Others’ Hearts”, Ferzan continued his analysis of the social problems of the modern world, and in another film “Saturn Against”, released in 2007, he again turned to the topic of homosexuality.
In 2007, Ozpetek was a member of the jury of the Venice Film Festival. In 2008, he was awarded the Order of the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano for merits of the first degree. At the end of 2008, a retrospective of Ozpetek’s films was shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art.