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How a Group of Turkish Filmmakers Stole ‘Star Wars’

Stealing a Classic

Çetin İnanç, a Turkish filmmaker who specialized in gangster films and light erotic fiction, had a problem. The only solution, as he saw it, was to rip off the space epic.

Max Toomey
Max Toomey
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