UN Pays Qui Agonise - La Turquie AKA Turkey (1920-1924)

Part of a French film on Turkey. Title: “Un Pays Qui Agonise - La Turquie“. Item intercut with intertitles in French. Shot of mosque with trees around it. At the Hippodrome Place, pan past prisons, tall obelisk of former ruler Constantine Porforianisos, man in fez hat walks past. Shot 2 mosques, one on hill in background could be Mosque of Sultan Ahmet (Camii?). Fountain of Guillaume, referred to as a gift from the Kaiser (does not say which), another mosque in foreground. Another shot of mosque of Ahmet, the only one with 6 minarets (though only 4 shown here). Pan on buildings housing Hamam Sultan baths, pan left to Hagia Sophia mosque (formerly St. Sophia church, built in 532 - 537 ad, this is in the old quarter of Greek Byzantium). Shot of the arsenal. Title describing next shot as the fountain of the Sultan, in fact is shot of square building with designs on walls, sloped roof has small domed turrets sticking up from it. Two boys riding a horse, pan up structure of double arches with be
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