Salur Kazan: The Reluctant Hero (Salur Kazan: Zoraki Kahraman) (translated)

Salur Kazan: Zoraki Kahraman (Salur Kazan: The Reluctant Hero) is a 2017 Turkish film directed by Burak Aksak. Blending comedy with adventure across roughly 97 minutes, it offers a playful, loose adaptation of the Tales of Dede Korkut, the classic cycle of Oghuz Turkish legends.

In the story, the Oghuz lord Salur Kazan rides off to hunt and leaves the camp in the care of his son Uruz. A lapse of attention lets raiders overrun the settlement and carry off his family, and Kazan must take to the trail to win his loved ones back.

Zafer Algöz, Necip Memili and Devrim Yakut head the cast, with Korhan Herduran as Uruz and Onur Atilla as the shepherd. The film retells the old epic in a contemporary comic register.