Shadows On The Water

This documentary tells the 400 years old fairy tale of the historical seaside mansions on the Bosphorus. There were once 2000 of such mansions, but now there are only 70. These wooden mansions on the shore present the best examples of Ottoman civil architecture. Despite their simple exterior designs, and the lavishness in their interior decoration and ornamentation, these mansions have a very special place in the world civil architecture. However they also attract attention with what has happened within these edifices. These seaside mansions, built during the 18th and the 19th centuries, a period in which luxury and debauchery in the Ottoman Empire reached its peak, are also interesting, because of the posh lifestyle of the inhabitants and moonlight parties held on the Bosphorus. And sometimes they had become a venue where treaties had been signed which had changed the history of the Ottoman Empire.