"Fetih" meaning "conquest". It is rip-snorting entertainment on a grand scale, and from a perspective you're unlikely to see in a Hollywood movie: You'd be hard-put to get the average American to finance a movie in which the fall of Christian Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire is a good thing. When Sultan Mehmet Han (Devrim Evin) comes to the throne beneath the shadow of his earlier disgrace; his own closest advisors have their doubts about his ability to lead, and several think Mehmet's determination to conquer Constantinople, which his own father tried and failed to do, is reckless at best and potentially ruinous madness at worst.
The city of Constantinople may still have the most awe-inspiring fortified walls of any city in the known world, Constantine needs help and makes overtures to the Vatican, even though he knows that accepting Rome's assistance will mean submitting to its authority.
All of this history unrolls behind the story of Mehmet's struggle to win the respect of his subjects. Mehmet engages the father-daughter team to build a cannon capable of shattering Constantinople's wall.
One can't deny the production of war scenes is an improvement for Turkish film industry, but unfortunately, that's all.
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