Kartal Yuvasi

Of course any movie buff would have recognized in this movie a kind of remake of Sam Peckinpah's famous feature, made three years earlier. Only a dum would have missed it. It is so obvious that the directing nor acting are billions miles away from the original. The Indian movie industry could have made such a "stolen" topic, they have already done this kind of forgery. Stolen because I am dead sure it was never declared, and so hidden from the international film market. For instance never gone to Cannes Festival. But it remains an interesting film to watch if you are curious enough for hidden gems.

KARTAL YUVASI is better known as TURKISH STRAW DOGS, a straight-up remake of the Peckinpah classic that copies many scenes closely while making key changes along the way. There's the home-as-refuge trope, the marauding bandit gang, the blonde wife who gets attacked by male predators. Yet, oddly, there's no Dustin Hoffman in this one, rather an ass-kicking granny character who has to take the fight to the bad guys when her home gets invaded. This Turkish exploitation movie offers choppy editing, a little gore, and a random juxtaposition of rape and birth...I'm not quite sure what the message of that was. The patriotic scenes of Turks battling Greeks over Cyprus are hilarious.