Çetin İnanç is a Turkish

Turkey

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 film director who has directed movies for the past five decades.

Biography

Born in Ankara

Ankara

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 in 1941, Inanç spent his youth pursuing a career in Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

. He later abandoned his career in law. He began his cinema career as the assistant of well-known Turkish director Atıf Yılmaz

Atif Yilmaz

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was almost a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish...

. In 1967 he made his first movie Çelik Bilek based on an Italian comics

Italian comics

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 character. He quickly moved into the niche market of producing erotica

Erotica

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, but was dissuaded from that path as military took over in Turkey

Turkey

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 and passed several censorship laws against adult movies. His next venture was action movies, including his most famous work Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam

Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam is a 1982 Turkish-made B-movie commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious use of unauthorized Star Wars footage worked into the film.-Cast:...

, a space saga commonly dubbed the "Turkish Star Wars

Star Wars

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".

Today, Çetin

Çetin

Çetin is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Çetin" means "Tough", "Robust", "Strong", "Hard", and/or "Arduous".-Given name:* Çetin Alp , a Turkish pop music singer...

 İnanç continues to direct, although his passion has since been funneled into Turkish television programmes likes Çılgın Bediş and the more recent Karaoğlan

Karaoglan

Karaoğlan is a Turkish historical comic book that was created in 1963 and drawn by Suat Yalaz.It was first published on January 3, 1962 daily in Akşam newspaper...

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He was nicknamed as "jet director" in Turkish cinema circles since he shot most of his films in around 10 days.

External links

• My Space profile: http://www.myspace.com/cetininanc
• Kamera Arkası profile: http://www.kameraarkasi.org/yonetmenler/cc/cetininanc.html (in Turkish)