By Nathan Williams BBC News
Lobby card for Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves The World) Cetin Inanc’s 1982 film Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam has been dubbed the Turkish Star Wars
From The Dark Knight Rises to The Amazing Spider-Man, superheroes dominate the box office at this time of year. But a long way from the million-dollar Hollywood films, there is another group of caped crusaders who have caught the imagination of film fans the world over.
The film opens with an image of space decked in twinkling Christmas decorations.
The Superman theme kicks in and the familiar S-logo floats over the top, looking rather hand-drawn.
Soon we are following Clark Kent set out on his adventures. Only the bespectacled man is not Kent at all, it is someone called Tayfun and he is living in rural Turkey.
He is the star of Supermen Donuyor, meaning The Return of Superman – a 1979 Turkish remake of Richard Donner’s 1978 classic.
That is just the beginning. From the 1960s to 1980s Turkish popular cinema – dubbed Yesilcam (Green Pine) – produced a large number of films that borrowed storylines and ideas from American blockbusters and pop culture. Some even lifted entire sequences and scores from Hollywood.
via BBC News – The Turk who saved the world (and other stories).
more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18851790
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