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Wounded Wolf (Yaralı Kurt)

Wounded Wolf (Yaralı Kurt) (translated)

Movie · 1972 · 4 people

In 1972 Lütfi Ömer Akad directed Yaralı Kurt (Wounded Wolf), a Turkish film. Counted as a drama, crime and adventure picture, it also carries neo-noir and action labels. Shot in colour, it runs about 82 minutes and is listed with a release date of 1 October 1972. Cüneyt Arkın, Ahmet Mekin and Şükran Yamakoğlu share the leading roles.

The film adapts Graham Greene's novel A Gun for Hire, also known as A Gun for Sale and published in Turkish as Satılmış Adam. At its centre is the contract killer Ali Karasu, played by Cüneyt Arkın. Ali realises he has been paid in counterfeit money for a killing and goes after those who cheated him; along the way his path crosses that of Gül, played by Şükran Yamakoğlu. Ahmet Mekin plays Inspector İrfan and Kerem Yılmazer plays the police officer Sabri. The cast also includes Yıldırım Önal (Şakir), Süha Doğan (Hilmi Selen), Osman Alyanak (the coffeehouse keeper İbrahim) and Güzin Özipek (Fikriye).

Selim İleri adapted the story from the novel for the screen, and Akad himself wrote the shooting script. The producer is Hürrem Erman, the production company is Erman Film and the cinematographer is Gani Turanlı. In the Turkish dub, Abdurrahman Palay voices Cüneyt Arkın and Gülen Kıpçak voices Şükran Yamakoğlu.

DirectorÖmer Lütfi Akad
Production companyErman Film

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Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Ali Karasu Ahmet Mekin Ahmet Mekin Actor · 94 years old Inspector İrfan Kerem Yılmazer Kerem Yılmazer Actor · died at 58 Police Officer Sabri Osman Alyanak Osman Alyanak Actor · 1911 – 1991 Kahveci İbrahim

Also in the cast: Yıldırım Önal, Süha Doğan, Güzin Özipek

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

Seeing Lütfi Ömer Akad and Cüneyt Arkın in the same credits opens a door onto one of Yeşilçam's most solid periods. The story, adapted from Graham Greene's A Gun for Sale, is carried by Selim İleri's literary sensibility and Akad's measured direction. Here Arkın is not the familiar hero but a contract killer cheated with counterfeit money, and that shadow gives his performance a special depth. Ahmet Mekin's Inspector İrfan brings a dignified balance to the scenes. And Abdurrahman Palay's familiar voice is a small gift that recalls the dubbing tradition of those years.

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

A contract killer realises he has been paid in counterfeit money and goes after the people who cheated him: you can't get a cleaner revenge set-up than that. Wounded Wolf says what it has to say in 82 minutes and doesn't dawdle. Cüneyt Arkın was made for roles like this. That said, if you are used to today's action, the fights and chases may look limited by the means of the time; the film's real strength is the atmosphere in which the tension builds.

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

Akad's Wounded Wolf is one of the interesting examples of how Yeşilçam localised a foreign novel. Selim İleri adapted Graham Greene's dark world and Akad wrote the shooting script himself, a two-step process that gives the film both a literary and a genre vein. Ali Karasu is close to the lonely, morally ambiguous hero of classic noir; the neo-noir label is not there by chance. Gani Turanlı's colour cinematography lends a different texture to the genre's usual darkness. What deserves criticism is the period's practice of post-dubbing: it sometimes flattens the finer shades of the performances and breaks the natural flow of the scenes.

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