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Tarkan Versus the Vikings (Tarkan: Viking Kanı)

Tarkan Versus the Vikings (Tarkan: Viking Kanı)

Movie · 1971 · 19 people

Sezgin Burak’s comic strip supplies the fictional Hunnic warrior Tarkan, whom the 1971 Turkish adventure film Tarkan Versus the Vikings (Tarkan: Viking Kanı) brings to the screen. Blending fantasy, action and history, it is a Turkish take on sword-and-sandal. Mehmet Aslan directed from a script by Sezgin Burak and Sadık Şendil. Teoman Tümer and Nahit Ataman produced it for Arzu Film and Tuna Film; it runs about 86 minutes and opened on 1 November 1971.

Kartal Tibet plays Tarkan, as in the rest of the series, in a sequel to Tarkan: Gümüş Eyer. While the Hun emperor Attila conquers the European states one by one, the weakened countries are left open to the Viking threat from Scandinavia. The Vikings strike a deal with the Chinese emperor, who wants Attila’s daughter Yonca Hatun, then besiege a Hun fortress and capture her. Tarkan sets out after the Viking commander Toro and the Chinese princess Lotus, both to free Yonca and to take revenge.

Also in the cast are Bilâl İnci as Toro, Seher Şeniz as Lotus, Fatma Belgen as Yonca, Atıf Kaptan as King Gero and Hüseyin Alp as Orso; Cahit Engin shot it. In 2005 the film was released in the US by Mondo Macabro on a double-bill DVD with The Deathless Devil.

DirectorMehmet Aslan
Production companyArzu Film, Tuna Film

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Hüseyin Alp Actor · died at 47 Orso Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet Actor · died at 82 Tarkan Eva Bender Seher Şeniz Seher Şeniz Actor · died at 44 Lotus Fatma Belgen Bilâl İnci Bilâl İnci Actor · died at 69 Toro Con Atıf Kaptan Tarık Şimşek Tarık Şimşek Actor · died at 46 Erik Yusuf Sezer Osman Han İbrahim Kurt Ahmet Koç Ahmet Sert Celal Yonat Celal Yonat Actor · 1922 – 1993 Davulcu Ünal Gürel Actor · 1935 – 2002 Zafer Önen Zafer Önen Actor · died at 92 Kamer Sadık Kamer Sadık Actor · 1911 – 1986 Forsa Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm Actor · died at 95

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

Born from Sezgin Burak's comic strip, Tarkan holds a place of his own in Yeşilçam adventure cinema, and Viking Kanı is a typical link in that world. The Tarkan Kartal Tibet plays across the whole series stands for old virtues such as loyalty, courage and keeping one's word. One shouldn't look here for the finesse of our classic dramas; yet this innocent air of adventure, where good and evil are clearly divided and the hero never gives in to cynicism, has an odd warmth next to today's dark heroes.

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

Huns, Vikings, a besieged fortress, a captured princess and a warrior out for revenge: on paper it's the full adventure package. It's an interesting stop for anyone who wants to see a home-grown take on sword-and-sandal. In my view, though, the fights and effects look pretty naive by today's standards, and anyone expecting a modern action pace may get restless. A fun trip back in time for those curious about the genre's history.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Tarkan Versus the Vikings is an interesting example of Turkish popular cinema's comic-strip-based genre experiments. The script, which brings Hun, Viking and Chinese characters into one story, leans on comic-book logic rather than historical reality and makes no secret of it. Being a sequel makes the structure familiar, blending fantasy and history with the series' known patterns. Its weakness is that the characters are defined by function rather than depth: the villains are merely villainous and the hero almost flawless. Its 2005 US DVD release on a double bill with The Deathless Devil shows that these home-grown genre films have found an audience abroad as well.

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