Tarkan Versus the Vikings
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Tarkan Versus the Vikings is a 1971 Turkish action film
, directed by Ertem Eğilmez
based on a comic strip by Sezgin Burak, starring Kartal Tibet
as fictional Hunnic
warrior Tarkan
, who vows revenge against Viking
raiders after they ambush him and leave him for dead. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , was the fifth in a series of seven films based on the comic strip character and was released in the USA in 2005 by Mondo Macabro on a double-bill DVD with The Deathless Devil
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Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
, directed by Ertem Eğilmez
Ertem Egilmez
Ertem Eğilmez was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known as the name behind some of the most popular films in Turkish film history...
based on a comic strip by Sezgin Burak, starring Kartal Tibet
Kartal Tibet
Kartal Tibet is a Turkish actor and film director. Some of his famous films include Ölmeyen Aşk, Dağlar Kızı, Senede Bir Gün, Sultan, Zübük, Gol Kralı, Gol Krale and Şalvar Davası. Tibet is also known for his action roles, especially that of the title character in the Karaoğlan and Tarkan film...
as fictional Hunnic
Huns
The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns,...
warrior Tarkan
Tarkan (character)
Tarkan is a fictional Hunnic warrior created by Turkish cartoonist Sezgin Burak.To note, official Turkish historiography considers Huns as ancestral to modern Turks...
, who vows revenge against Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
raiders after they ambush him and leave him for dead. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , was the fifth in a series of seven films based on the comic strip character and was released in the USA in 2005 by Mondo Macabro on a double-bill DVD with The Deathless Devil
The Deathless Devil
The Deathless Devil is a 1972 Turkish action film, co-written, produced and directed by Yılmaz Atadeniz, starring Kunt Tulgar as a young man who takes up his father's mantle as masked crimefighter Copperhead to defeat the evil Dr. Satan...
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