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Title: A glimpse of Turkey in the 16th Century
Review: I had the soundtrack CD from this film for a long time and love the music, but it took me years to find the film from which it came. I finally re-read the CD liner notes and tried finding a link to the film at the website of one of the producers -- bingo. And it was available from Amazon, so a few days later the film (a one-hour documentary on DVD) was in my hands.Suleyman the Magnificent was released in 1987, and the video quality is of that time. A lot of it is views of stills, a la Ken Burns's Civil War series; but this is effective and informative. Ian McKellan narrates. I learned a lot from watching the film, and I recommend it to anyone who is curious about Turkey, an important country and society that occupies a unique position in our world, the bridge between east and west.
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