Offensive films affect Christians and Muslims alike

“Fetih 1453” is a historical film that will soon be showing in Lebanese theaters. The movie tells the story of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine City in the hands of Conqueror Sultan Muhammad II. 

With a budget exceeding 18 million dollars, “Fetih 1453” is a Turkish action film and one of the most important movies showing the conquest of Constantinople from the Turkish point of view.   
However, the Byzantine Church in Lebanon seems not to agree with the Turkish analysis, and considers that the film insults Christian sanctities and symbols.         

In the past few days, a number of activists on Facebook have been protesting against the reformulation of the history of Constantinople in the film “Fetih 1453”, which, according to them, contains false historical facts.        

These activists will be holding a sit-in on Saturday September 29 at 4 pm at Sassine Square in protest of what they consider “an offense to the Christian civilization”. They will also protest outside the movie theaters that will be showing the film expected to be released on September 27.


For the full LBCI report, watch the video above.