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Tarkan: Altin Madalyon
Tarkan: The Gold Medallion
Bizans Çöküyor
Turkey 1973
produced by Nahit Ataman, Ertem Egilmez for Arzu Film
directed by [Mehmet Aslan
starring Kartal Tibet, Eva Bender, Altan Günbay, Zeki Alasya, Birsen Ayda, Pakize Suda, Yesim Tan, Halit Akçatepe, Kamran Usluer, Mürüvet Sim, Zeki Alpan, Orhan Aydinbas, Yadigar Ejder, Günay Güner, Osman Han, Akif Kilman, Nesrin Nur, Haluk Orçun, Zeki Sezer, Yavuzer Çetinkaya
screenplay by Sadik Sendil, based on the comicbook by Sezgin Burak
Tarkan, Attila the Hun
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Attila the Hun (Kamran Usluer) has made one promise to his wife Onorya
(Pakize Suda), whenever she sends him a certain gold medallion, he will
drop everything and rush to her side - so when he receives the medallion
while out conquering Europe, he rushes to her side, and she tells him that
he has a son - which makes him more than happy, but this happiness is soon
crushed when she and the boy are taken captive by the men of his own
brother, King of the Vandals (Zeki Alasya), who of course wants to take
over Attila's realm. The men almost kill Attila as well but fail thanks to
the timely interference of his friend, lone warrior Tarkan (Kartal Tibet).
Attila sends emmissaries to the King of Vandals to demand his wife and
son's release, but he only receives the dead body of Onorya, and now it's
up to Tarkan to free the boy. He soon hooks up with Kulke (Halit Akcatepe)
and his gang of acrobats, and with the (involuntary) help of the Queen of
the Vandals (Birsen Ayda), who conveniently moonlights as a prostitute
(it's never explained why), they manage to enter the palace and get hold
of the boy - but soon walk into an ambush set by the Vandals. Now the King
of the Vandals wants to just execute Tarkan, but nude sorceress Gosha (Eva
Bender) has a better idea, she puts him under her spell and sends him back
to execute Attila. Somehow Atilla's men can overcome Tarkan though and
prepare to behead him, and being still under Gosha's spell, Tarkan offers
not the least bit of resistance. But Kulke can escape his cell at the
Vandal palace and burn the magic doll that holds Tarkan's mind captive, so
just before his head comes off, Tarkan comes to, fights off his
executioner and returns to the Vandal palace, where he, Kulke and his men,
and eventually also Attila and his huns finally see to it that all the
baddies get their just desserts, and Attila is reunited with his son. What
can I say, it's a Tarkan movie - so don't even expect
historical accuracy, anything resembling subtlety, or even a multi-layered
narrative, as neither of those was expected from the series. Instead this
is a (literally and figuratively) colourful movie, with an easy to
understand plot with clear lines between good and evil, an abundance of
fights (not all well staged I'm afraid), some fun action setpieces, bits
fo sadism and quite a bit of nudity. It's basically a movie where you best
turn your brain off to enjoy - but then it's quite entertaining, actually
- not always for the intended reasons, as some of the props and costumes
are rather sloppily put together and not too much effort has been put into
the fight choreography, but entertaining still.
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