Extraordinary film correctly based on real deeds and set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire in which a twisted romance is developed . A world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become World War I. Now, with invading army forces at their doorstep, and the world about to plunge into all-out war, a woman must make a thorny decision . It deals with a love triangle between an idealistic American nurse (Hera Hilmar) and a Turkish officer (Michiel Huisman) in World War I , along with an American doctor (Josh Harnett) . Set in a land on the brink of war the most dangerous place to be is in love.
This The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) is the answer to Terry George's The Promise (2016) that followed a love triangle among a medical student , a sophisticated women and an prestigious American reporter , in which was a strong denounce about the Turkish genocide against Armenians , while The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) though it recognizes that there were Armenian massacres, these were caused due to the disastrous consequences of the war and that the Armenians allied themselves with the Russian invaders against the Turks. The film has an acid critic to the indolence of European nations and international community and specially , the abandon of foreign policy . Protagonist trio gives sensational performance , Hera Hilmar as a strong-willed young woman, Michiel Huisman as a Lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army and Josh Arnett as a doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire. Being accompanied by a great support cast , such as Ben Kingsley , Haluk Bilginer , Jessica Turner , among others . The movie has a colorful and evocative cinematography by Daniel Aranyó . As well as evocative and stirring music by Geoff Zanelli . This love triangle movie was professionally directed by Joseph Ruben. He his a fine craftsman who has made attractive films , most of them thrillers and action movies , such as : "The Forgotten" , "Return to Paradise" , "Money Train" , "The God Son" , "Sleeping with the Enemy" , "The Believer", "The Stepfather" and "Dreamscape" . Rating : 6.5/10 . Acceptable and decent drama .
The flick is based on actual facts , these are the following ones : It's calculated that in the indiscriminate massacre were cruelly killed by Turks approximately 1.5 million Armenians . In fact, director Joseph Ruben wanted to disown this film because of the post-production changes that deny the Armenian Genocide. This genocide against Armenians is called ¨Armenian Holocaust¨ that was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of Armenians , mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey . The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Reports of the conflict reached then United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau , Sr. From Aleppo and Van, prompting him to raise the issue in person with Talaat and Enver. As he quoted to them the testimonies of his consulate officials, they justified the deportations as necessary to the conduct of the war, suggesting that complicity of the Armenians of Van with the Russian forces that had taken the city justified the persecution of all ethnic Armenians. The Armenians were marched out to the Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor and the surrounding desert. There is no evidence that the Ottoman government provided the extensive facilities and supplies that would have been necessary to sustain the life of hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees during their forced march to the Syrian desert or after . By August 1915, The New York Times repeated an unattributed report that "the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people". Turkish leaders : Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha were completely aware that by abandoning the Armenian deportees in the desert they were condemning them to certain death . Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.