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Director:
Çetin Inanç
Writer:
Cüneyt Arkin (screenplay)
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User Comments:
Raiders of the Lost Cause.... more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Cüneyt Arkin ... Murat
Aytekin Akkaya ... Ali
Füsun Uçar ... Bilgin'in Kizi (as Füsün Uçar)
Hüseyin Peyda ... Bilgin
Necla Fide ... Kraliçe
Mehmet Ugur ... Yaratik
Kadir Kök ... Yaratik
Aydin Haberdar ... Yaratik
Yadigar Ejder ... Yaratik
Hikmet Tasdemir ... Sihirbaz
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Man Who Saves the World (USA) (literal English title)
Turkish Star Wars (USA) (bootleg title)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
Turkey
Language:
Turkish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Company:
Anit Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Star Wars (1977) footage was not all that was "borrowed" from Western movies for this film. Popular movie soundtracks were also used, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (used throughout the film), Moonraker (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Black Hole (1979). more
Quotes:
Murat: Begin to your famous whistle which no women can resist.
Ali: [Whistles]
Murat: You whistle it wrong
Ali: Why?
Murat: Skeletons came instead of woman
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Mondo Macabro: Episode 6 - Turkish Pop Cinema (2001) more

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83 out of 95 people found the following comment useful:-
Raiders of the Lost Cause...., 14 August 2002
10/10
Author: George Litman from Marietta, OH USA

I like this movie.

No, really; this is one of the most unrestrained, joyously goofy, lovingly bone-headed endeavors put on film since Jerry Lewis took to the camera.

But it's not a comedy! I THINK it isn't, anyway.

Think you've seen it all? Check out this: "Dünyayi kurtaran adam" (or "Turkish Star Wars" or "The Man who Saves the World" or whatever alias it has in Witness Protection now) not only borrows but begs and steals elements and music from "Star Wars" (natch), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Flash Gordon"; many scenes simply run clips from "Star Wars" interspersed in otherwise non-space scenes, probably just to keep reminding you this is taking place in a galaxy far far away....

But then the film-makers throw in their own special FX.

Oh brother.

Red-cell tints, back projection, jerky stop-motion brains (don't go there), shag-rug aliens, party masks (one alien is a red-colored devil mask, complete with goatee, widow's peak and horns! MAN!!), toilet paper-wrapped zombies, and...and....

Okay, caught my breath. Get this: there are a lot (and I do mean A LOT) of scenes where they play the "SW" clips through a partially blocked-out screen. What; the camera suddenly developing glaucoma?

And the heroes? Two non-Solos who wear polyester shirts (that blue one with the two yellow flowers on the chest - STYLIN'!) and give karate kicks and chops and sport physiques like any well-schooled middle-aged banker would possess. Nice hair, though.

As far as the dialogue goes, couldn't get a word of it. I don't speak Turkish, but who needs dialogue; this is apparently not a movie that takes great pains to make a brave new world.

So it's dumb, gratuitously thick and probably illegal. But it IS funny. Maybe that was the goal, after all?

Ten stars and a Golden Glove for "Dünyayi kurtaran adam". Buy a copy today...hey, anyone know George Lucas' birthday?

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