The Ottoman Lieutenant

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The Ottoman Lieutenant

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2017

1h 50m

History

Drama

War

Romance

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A strong-willed woman, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire -- a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission's founder when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army.

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Roxana Hadadi

Punch Drunk Critics

03/13/2017

2/5

An enlightening film could be made about the Ottoman Empire in the days before World War I, that particular place at that particular time, but The Ottoman Lieutenant isn't it.

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Gary M. Kramer

Salon.com

03/10/2017

"The Ottoman Lieutenant" is all over the map in terms of tone, genre and acting styles.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

03/10/2017

1/4

We can smell the rancid coats of paint on this attempt to whitewash history.

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

04/17/2020

3/5

it has some issues with the historical side of its story but the romance is not bad and not overly sweet. It works on the surface as a romance film and looks stunning while doing so.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

10/05/2019

1.5/5

The film collapses underneath the weight of its perilously hokey clichés and renders itself obsolete.

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Sean Mulvihill

FanboyNation.com

10/31/2018

1/5

I guess the lesson of The Ottoman Lieutenant is simple: If you're gonna make a shameful piece of revisionist propaganda, at least make it entertaining.

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isla s

09/04/2022

This film features some impressive cinematography, with foreign landscapes shown off via aerial photography. There are some good battle scenes too but the basic plot was a little bland. I thought it was no better than average really, overall.

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Scott R

07/13/2022

If there was a movie here I must have missed it. Probably because I fell asleep.

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12/21/2021

I'm so annoyed I wasted my time waiting for this movie to get better. There's no passion, no character, no creativity, no good plot. It's like a WWI era Twilight plot but worse acting and less chemistry, while whitewashing the brutal Armenian genocide. The lead males would maybe be OK if it weren't for the bad, uninteresting script. I don't know who the heck casted the lead actress, but she brings nothing to the character. She might as well be Bella Swan: no personality or facial expressions. I could go on, but you get the gist.

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11/22/2021

I liked it...I liked the actors, especially the male and female lead.

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06/19/2021

I like the setting and the camera work, but the acting wasn't that great. I do love Ben Kingsley!

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05/22/2021

This film exploits the Armenian Genocide as a plot device to create a clichéd story about star-crossed lovers. The Ottoman Lieutenant whitewashed history and exploits the very real suffering of the Armenian people. There are no Armenian main characters, nor do any of the Armenian extras have any agency over their situation. Genocide should not be used as a background to make your main characters into sympathetic white saviors. Moreso, when one of the main characters is complicit in the genocide for 3/4 of the film.

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A strong-willed woman, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire -- a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude and the mission's founder when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army.

Director: Joseph Ruben
Producer: Stephen Joel Brown, Alinur Velidedeoglu, Gunes Celikcan, Merve Zorlu, Yusuf Esenkal, Serdar Ogretici
Screenwriter: Jeff Stockwell
Distributor: Paladin
Production Co: Y Production, Eastern Sunrise Films
Rating: R (Some War Violence)
Genre: History, Drama, War, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 10, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $149.8K
Runtime: 1h 50m

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