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Tarkan Versus the Vikings (1971)

Tarkan Versus the Vikings poster
Original title
Tarkan: Viking Kanı
Directed by
Mehmet Aslan
Genre
sword-and-sandal film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 44 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Hunnic warrior named Tarkan is ambushed by Viking raiders. He survives and sets out to get his revenge on them.

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What happens

Tarkan Versus the Vikings (Turkish: Tarkan Viking Kanı) is a 1971 Turkish action film, directed by Ertem Eğilmez based on a comic strip by Sezgin Burak, starring Kartal Tibet as fictional Hunnic warrior Tarkan, who vows revenge against Viking raiders after they ambush him and leave him for dead. The film, which went on nationwide general release on November 1, 1971 (1971-11-01), was the fifth in a series of seven films based on the comic strip character. Tarkan Versus the Vikings was released in the US in 2005 by Mondo Macabro on a double-bill DVD with The Deathless Devil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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