Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema (2019)

7.1/10 • 96 min • Documentary

Overview

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

Cast

Cüneyt Arkın

Self

Çetin İnanç

Self

Metin Erksan

Self

Halit Refiğ

Self

Yılmaz Atadeniz

Self

Kunt Tulgar

Self

Memduh Ün

Self

Hülya Koçyiğit

Self

Fatma Girik

Self

Türkan Şoray

Self

Nilüfer Aydan

Self

İzzet Günay

Self

Eşref Kolçak

Self

İrfan Atasoy

Self

Kayhan Yıldızoğlu

Self

Süheyl Eğriboz

Self

Hüseyin Zan

Self

İhsan Gedik

Self

Sırrı Elitaş

Self

Aydemir Akbaş

Self

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