"If You Want a Film to Fly, Make Americans the Heavies
By SEBNEM ARSU
Published: February 14, 2006
ISTANBUL, Feb. 13 — The crowd cheered, clapped and whistled as the Turkish agent plunged the knife into the chest of the enemy commander.
A poster in Istanbul Monday for the movie 'Valley of the Wolves - Iraq.' The most expensive film ever made in Turkey, it's breaking box office records. The screenwriter says it wasn't meant to insult Americans.
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A still from the film, which opened last week in Turkey, Austria and Germany. Some of the incidents are based, in part, on real events.
'Valley of the Wolves — Iraq,' which opened last week in movie theaters in Turkey, Austria and Germany, is a Rambo-like action story involving Turkish gunmen who seek revenge against a tyrannical occupying army."
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