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Human Hunter (İnsan Avcısı)

Human Hunter (İnsan Avcısı) (translated)

Movie · 1975 · 7 people

Colour Turkish action and crime film İnsan Avcısı (Human Hunter) dates from 1975. Duygu Sağıroğlu wrote and directed it, with Cüneyt Arkın in the lead. Uğur Film made it and Memduh Ün produced. Heroin, smuggling, fighting, karate and foreign agents are among its key elements, and it runs 87 minutes.

The story follows police officer Metin (Cüneyt Arkın) of the narcotics department as he breaks up an international plot against Turkey. A committee dreaming of a Greater Greece is working to turn opinion against the country and plans to bring about an embargo through drug smuggling it has prepared. To that end it places its men Bill and Toma inside the narcotics department. Metin is suspicious of their arrival from the start. An assassination attempt on striking workers exposes the committee's plan, and both Metin and his friend Mehmet (Ata Saka) are marked for elimination. Metin escapes, but Mehmet and his family are murdered, and Metin quits the force to pursue his own justice.

Tarık Şimşek plays the CIA agent Bill McLoren, Yavuz Selekman plays Toma Formas and Turgut Özatay plays Kosma. Hikmet Taşdemir, Meral Deniz, Reha Yurdakul, İhsan Özenç and Yadigar Ejder are among the others. The cinematographer is Mustafa Yılmaz.

DirectorDuygu Sağıroğlu
Production companyUğur Film

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Ata Saka Actor · born 1937 Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Inspector Metin Tarık Şimşek Tarık Şimşek Actor · died at 46 Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Yadigar Ejder Actor · died at 43 Yavuz Selekman Yavuz Selekman Actor · died at 67 Muharrem Gürses Muharrem Gürses Actor · died at 85

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

İnsan Avcısı is pure seventies Cüneyt Arkın: heroin smugglers, foreign agents, karate and plenty of fighting. At 87 minutes the story moves fast, and the two men planted in the narcotics department give it tension from the start. The stretch where Metin quits the force to chase his own justice is what really drives the film. The fight choreography looks clumsy by today's standards, but the energy is still a lot of fun.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film is an interesting document of how Turkish commercial cinema in the mid-1970s turned fears of an international conspiracy into screen entertainment. A committee dreaming of a Greater Greece tries to bring an embargo down on the country through drug smuggling, while a CIA agent and the committee's men infiltrate the police. The villains are one-dimensional and the world is split cleanly into heroes and traitors, which makes the film less a thriller than a mirror of the anxieties of its day. The assassination attempt on striking workers woven into the plot is a small but telling trace of the social tensions of the period. Watching it now, it is worth keeping that language of enemies in mind.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Anyone who knows Cüneyt Arkın will recognise his familiar bearing in İnsan Avcısı straight away: a man who will not bow to injustice and who carries his friend's loss in his heart. The friendship with Mehmet, played by Ata Saka, gives the film some warmth. Still, it has to be said that the story leans far too heavily on the revenge formula; you should not look here for the depth of Arkın's finest films of those years. One would have liked to see the hero's conscience as well as his anger. For anyone after the flavour of an old crime picture, it still makes a pleasant evening.

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