Fire (Yangın) (translated)

Ahmet Üstel wrote the screenplay for Yangın (Fire), a 1977 Turkish adventure drama directed by Atıf Yılmaz. It is a Yeşilçam adaptation of an episode of the foreign television series Petrocelli from the 1970s, and runs 82 minutes. The film opened on 1 April 1977, and was produced by İrfan Ünal for Akün Film. As the last film of Ayhan Işık, it holds a particular place in Turkish cinema history.

Ayhan Işık plays Selçuk Ünver, a stern public prosecutor devoted to his principles. Necla Nazır plays his wife Nevin, and Fikret Hakan is Kenan, the childhood friend who visits the couple after seven years apart. The reunion is cut short when Kenan is held over a robbery in which two people died. Selçuk believes in his innocence, but the police file reveals a past full of armed raids, gambling and smuggling. The story turns on Kenan's devotion to Belkıs, a young woman who is the lover of a heroin smuggler, and tension climbs until Nevin is kidnapped. The cast also includes Gönül Hancı, Kenan Pars and Tugay Toksöz as the police commissioner.

Erdoğan Engin shot it. The score borrows pieces by John Williams from Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.