SummaryA beautiful, strong-willed woman (Hera Hilmar), frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor (Josh Hartnett) 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... Read More
Directed By:Joseph Ruben
Written By:Jeff Stockwell
The Ottoman Lieutenant
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Generally Unfavorable
26
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8.9
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Mar 9, 2017
50
I’ll admit to a weakness for this sort of thing (which Merchant-Ivory, a couple of decades back, made into elegant art), but even I couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for this one, a tepid love triangle set in the Ottoman Empire in the early days of World War I.
Mar 9, 2017
40
The by-the-numbers story never achieves its aimed-for grandeur or intensity, and the striking Turkish locations prove far more interesting than the characters.
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88% Positive
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193 Ratings
3% Mixed
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May 20, 2017
10
Michiel Huisman has absolutely outdone himself with this film; it had me entranced from the start. Beautifully shot, amazing casting and the time and effort put into the making of this film really shone through. I feel the costumers deserve an Oscar nomination for this one - everything was spot on which for a period drama is almost impossible:) Flawless casting and great character development leads the viewer through the story; this film will bring out emotions and provoke thought. I loved the perspective of the film; it is an exceptional sensitive retelling of an historical story from both perspectives and I think this is one of the absolute highlights of this film. See it - you won't be disappointed! Take the tissues though...
Mar 7, 2017
38
What we’re left with is a botched romance saddled with an over-arching, over-reaching message, one that only the Turks will be quick to embrace.
Mar 9, 2017
30
The Ottoman Lieutenant is an overwrought nurse romance merged with a history lesson, a combination that is hard to take as seriously as the film wants to be taken.
Mar 10, 2017
25
Upon taking in the gorgeousness — and it is really something; the production design of this movie, by Luca Tranchino, is exceptional (as is Daniel Aranyó’s cinematography, which shines when he’s shooting in the natural world) —Lillie observes, “It’s like being inside God’s thoughts.”
Mar 9, 2017
25
A limp and lifeless historical melodrama that aspires to be the “Pearl Harbor” of the preamble to World War I and still falls well short of that ignoble goal, Joseph Ruben’s The Ottoman Lieutenant tries to snatch a love triangle from out beneath the Armenian Genocide but fails to get any of the angles right.
Mar 8, 2017
20
Ultimately, this is a movie that’s more about the Ottoman Lieutenant’s Woman than The Ottoman Lieutenant himself – another example of the film’s epic misdirection.
May 8, 2017
10
This film is seriously interesting! The visual effects and scenario are great. There is a scenario that touches the heart of man. I do not agree with negative comments about The Ottoman Lieutenant.
Nov 27, 2021
6
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.
Jul 12, 2018
6
At first I thought this movie will have an interesting love story in the middle of the Armenian/Ottoman conflict in the World War 1, when the Armenian genocide happenned etc and they will not only show the love story part but also all the bad etc. The bad was shown, but it was in the background mostly and just to show how good the ottoman lieutenant is. I mean something was lacking for this to be properly good movie, it was decent, actors were okay and the movie setting was great of course, but still.
Jul 25, 2017
2
this movie doesn't even address the 1.5 million Armenians the Ottoman Turks like the officer in this movie where busy killing instead of fighting the War...while the young Male Armenians where sent in mass to the Front to do their duty...believing that the Ottoman Government was going to be **** I'm 100% sure this completely leaves out the Jew Zion connection to the Young Turks movement and the treaty that was to transfer Armenia to the Zion movement so they could create their Jew **** yeah, there was a big reason to kill those Armenian Christian...1st they where Christian and you know what Jews and Muslims think of **** 2nd The land needed to be clear for the Jew State.....lets not even talk about Anatolia (750,000 Killings of the Christians Greek population)... this movie is 100% **** right from the start if it doesn't even cover this atrocities.
Nov 1, 2025
0
This film is shameless propaganda disguised as a love story. Funded and produced in Turkey, it rewrites history to portray the Ottoman Empire sympathetically while ignoring or softening the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides. Instead of confronting one of history’s greatest crimes, it hides behind glossy romance and “tragic misunderstanding.” It’s manipulative, revisionist, and deeply disrespectful to every victim of that era.
Production Company:
- Eastern Sunrise Films
- ES Film
- Y Production
Release Date:Mar 10, 2017
Duration:1 h 46 m
Rating:R
Tagline:In a land on the brink of war the most dangerous place to be is in love.
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