Ottoman Lieutenant, The

Gorgeous cinematography highlights this engaging, well-acted, unpredictable, mild violence, 109-minute romantic film in which a striking, headstrong, Christian nurse (Hera Hilmar) leaves her stunned, worried parents (Paul Barrett and Jessica Turner) in Philadelphia to deliver her deceased brother's much-needed truck and medical supplies to a remote American mission hospital founded by a hotheaded doctor (Ben Kingsley) in Istanbul in 1914 and then finds herself being pursued by a smitten American doctor (Josh Hartnett) and a handsome Muslim Turkish Imperial Army lieutenant (Michiel Huisman) while WWI rages around her when Russia sides with Germany and takes on Ottoman Empire soldiers (Haluk Bilginer, et al.) and Armenian rebels.
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