Secret of the Sultan (2010)

Original title

Sultanın Sırrı

Directed by

Hakan Şahin

Genre

action film

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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