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Secret of the Sultan (2010)

Secret of the Sultan poster
Original title
Sultanın Sırrı
Directed by
Hakan Şahin
Genre
action film
Country
Turkey
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American professor goes to Istanbul to find a lost chest belonging to a sultan. With his friend, he searches the hidden underground rooms of Topkapı Palace.

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What happens

Secret of the Sultan (Turkish: Sultanın Sırrı) is a 2010 Turkish action film, directed by Hakan Şahin and written and produced by historian and journalist Ömer Erbil, starring Emanuel Bettencourt as an American professor in Istanbul to search for the sultan's mysterious chest in the hidden underground cloisters of the Topkapı Palace with the help of his friend Mark Dacascos. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 17 December 2010 (2010-12-17), was made with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. It was described by Hürriyet Daily News reviewer Emrah Güler as a mixture of the "National Treasure" movies and Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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