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The Ottoman Lieutenant adapted from stage not just his actOn the brink of the First World War, The Ottoman Lieutenant tells the story of a strong willed American woman (Hera Hilmar, Anna Karenina) who, frustrated by ongoing injustices at home, follows an American doctor (Josh Hartnett, Black Hawk Down) to a medical mission in the exotic Ottoman Empire. However, her loyalty to both the doctor and the mission's founder (Ben Kingsley, Schindler's List) is soon tested when she falls in love with Ismail (Michiel