Post by queenzod on Jan 8, 2019 19:20:08 GMT
Has anyone seen this? I’ve been binge watching it on Netflix. It’s a Turkish tv series based on a bunch of novels, based on the life of the author’s grandfather.
It’s wildly romantic (swoon). Seiyit, our hero, is a soldier in the Tsar’s guard, and when the revolution breaks out and the Bolsheviks take over he has to flee to Crimea, where his Turkish family lives. His father is adamant that he marry a Turkish woman, but he’s fallen in love with the daughter of a Russian nobleman, so complications ensue.
46 episodes, very slow pace, and subtitled in Turkish. Fascinating stuff, although a bit of a plod at times. The guy who plays Seiyit looks a little like the Chrisses Pine and Hemsworth smushed together. Piercing blue eyes.
I haven’t really paid much attention to the White Russians issue that arose after the Great War, but this goes into it in some detail, from the perspective of Tsarist Turks. There’s a lot of arms smuggling, which reminded me of this story about my grandfather.
He was born on Mt. Olympus in Greece in 1890, and came to the US around 1907. His family in Greece kept asking him to help them smuggle arms to Greece to help in their fight against the Turks, but he refused, saying he was an American now and wouldn’t jeopardize his citizenship for them. He subsequently cut all ties to his homeland.
In the tv series one of the themes is how the war and the revolution really tore families apart. Anyway, interesting stuff. I’m only on episode 20, so quite a bit left to watch.
It’s wildly romantic (swoon). Seiyit, our hero, is a soldier in the Tsar’s guard, and when the revolution breaks out and the Bolsheviks take over he has to flee to Crimea, where his Turkish family lives. His father is adamant that he marry a Turkish woman, but he’s fallen in love with the daughter of a Russian nobleman, so complications ensue.
46 episodes, very slow pace, and subtitled in Turkish. Fascinating stuff, although a bit of a plod at times. The guy who plays Seiyit looks a little like the Chrisses Pine and Hemsworth smushed together. Piercing blue eyes.
I haven’t really paid much attention to the White Russians issue that arose after the Great War, but this goes into it in some detail, from the perspective of Tsarist Turks. There’s a lot of arms smuggling, which reminded me of this story about my grandfather.
He was born on Mt. Olympus in Greece in 1890, and came to the US around 1907. His family in Greece kept asking him to help them smuggle arms to Greece to help in their fight against the Turks, but he refused, saying he was an American now and wouldn’t jeopardize his citizenship for them. He subsequently cut all ties to his homeland.
In the tv series one of the themes is how the war and the revolution really tore families apart. Anyway, interesting stuff. I’m only on episode 20, so quite a bit left to watch.
