Turkish Star Wars
The most infamous Turkish “rip-off” film ever made, now available for the first time on DVD with ENGLISH SUBTITLES! This is the full version of the film, which includes all of what makes it so hilarious—footage lifted directly from Star Wars, as well as music stolen from everything from Indiana Jones to Battlestar Galactica to Psycho!
The story behind this breathtaking masterpiece is the stuff of cinema legend. Back in 1982, Turkish cinema was struggling. They loved the Hollywood blockbusters, but did not have the budgets to create their own, homegrown films of this type. So they just filmed their own story and stole action scenes and effects shots directly out of Star Wars and other films and inserted them into their own film. And their film was pretty ludicrous to begin with!
Things to look out for:- The two heroes dogfighting in their X-Wings… really just two ugly guys sitting in motorcycle helmets and old Sony Walkman headphones, shot against TV screens playing clips from Star Wars space battles… oops—looks like they forgot to cut out the shots of people pressing buttons and such! HILARIOUS!
- Little children getting their brains eaten.
- Muppet-like bad-guys, such as the big red cookie-monsters, and the toilet-paper covered zombies!
- Our heroes fighting with traditionally Turkish vigor and passion, karate-chopping the bad guys’ heads off and kicking right through them!
- The Turkish Jedi Training sequence, in which our heroes punch and kick rocks to get strong. None of that “feel the force, Luke” rubbish here!
- Instead of lightsabres, cardboard swords that look like lightning bolts!
- And more and more and more… in Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam A.K.A. THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD A.K.A TURKISH STAR WARS!!!!!
The movie comes in a great case that mimics the look of the official Star Wars films on DVD and fits perfectly right next to them on your shelf!
Be sure to check out our other Turkish rip-offs, as well as other Star Wars titles.
Specifications (Learn what these terms mean)
- Running Time: 91min
- Format: DVD-R
- Language: Turkish
- Subtitles: English (hard-coded)
- Video System: NTSC
- Region: 0 (No Region Protection)
- Audio quality: 8/10
- Picture quality: 7/10