Dünyayi kurtaran adam (1982)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Çetin Inanç

Writer:

Cüneyt Arkin (screenplay)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Earth | Wizard | Explosion | Exploding Head | Children Killed

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

Also Known As:

The Man Who Saves the World (USA) (literal English title)
Turkish Star Wars (USA) (bootleg title)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

Turkey

Language:

Turkish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Company:

Anit Film

Trivia:

The material from Star Wars (1977) was spliced in from an anamorphic print, while this movie was shot in academy format, resulting in a non-correct aspect ratio during the Star Wars footage (e.g., the Death Star looks more like a Death Egg).

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

Movie Connections:

Edited from Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

...sheer genius...

To say that "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam" is the greatest movie of all time, is to imply that other movies can reach the sheer genius of this film. You probably understand all the surface quirks of the film. It is a Turkish film. (Being that I have never had the opportunity to enjoy Turkish cinema before, I can only conclude that Turkey is the uncrowned motion picture capital of the world.) It is a sci-fi movie that is filmed on a budget which is so low, that one may consider the term shoe-string budget an insult to the tangible value of shoe-strings. In order to duplicate the visual quality offered in American cinema, the director (Celtin Inanc) literally uses (read: steals) film footage from Star Wars and runs it during the film. Unfortunately, sometimes this effect is mildly confusing (the movie begins with the tie fighter sequence but you cannot really tell if the heroes are supposed to be piloting the X-wing fighters OR the tie fighters) to frighteningly moronic (during the final battle, the visuals of the tie fighter sequence flash, almost subliminally across the screen with no rational reason for its use) You should also keep an open ear of the great bootlegged music (only 17 years before the invention of the MP3) that makes up the films brilliant soundtrack. Music from Star Wars, Flash Gordon, and Indiana Jones are used in this film. The highlights of the movie include the final battle that looks like a "Power Rangers" outtakes reel and fantastic martial arts training sequences that make the lead actors look like a couple of out of shape, drunk children.

Ed Wood would be proud.