Fearless Warrior (Korkusuz Cengaver) (translated)

Adventure, drama and historical epic mix in Korkusuz Cengaver (Fearless Warrior), a Turkish film from 1976. Uğur Film made it, Memduh Ün produced it, and it runs eighty-eight minutes. Duygu Sağıroğlu wrote and directed it, and Cüneyt Arkın leads the cast. The story unfolds in the shadow of Byzantium, war, pirates and sorcery, and at its core is the struggle of a father brought down by a false accusation.

Şahin Bey is slandered by Anton and Anton's sibling, comes close to death, and survives. Hiding his identity as Kara Hilal, he starts to make trouble for Anton's men. Meanwhile he meets Sencer, the son he has not seen for years, played by Salih Kırmızı. The young man believes the rumours about his father and is hostile to Kara Hilal. Tarık Şimşek plays Anton; the cast also includes Mine Sun, Reha Yurdakul, Giray Alpan, Alan Steel and Yadigar Ejder. Trying to rescue his son, Şahin Bey is captured and loses his sight; he does not give in, and teaches himself to shoot arrows by the direction of sound.

The cinematographer is Muzaffer Turan and the score is by Erkin Koray. The film is in colour, later recoloured by Yeni Stüdyo. In the Turkish version Cüneyt Arkın is dubbed by Abdurrahman Palay.