La Fin des Ottomans

As it unfolds the century-long history of the collapse of the Ottomans, the film offers an in-depth understanding of the impact the process had on the former Ottoman territories, up to the present time... For six centuries, the Ottomans had ruled over three continents and seven seas. On the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, a whole new world was created. That is the purpose of this two-part film: analysing these new lines of fracture in order to remind how the Ottoman past still matters. Without appropriate knowledge and understanding of this page of history, no one could pretend grasping fully the current political, religious and ethnic challenges of our present time – in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Turkey, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Israel, in Palestine, in Irak… (Arte)