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The Masked Gang: Iraq (2007)

The Masked Gang: Iraq poster
Original title
Maskeli Beşler: Irak
Directed by
Murat Aslan
Genre
comedy film, tragicomedy
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
3.6 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of very bad criminals tries to take over an oil site in northern Iraq. They want to send the oil to Turkey. The movie follows their clumsy attempts.

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What happens

The Masked Gang: Iraq (Turkish: Maskeli Beşler: Irak) is a 2007 Turkish comedy film, directed by Murat Aslan, about an incompetent gang of criminals attempting to capture an oil installation in northern Iraq in order divert the oil to Turkey. The film, which went on general release across Turkey on January 12, 2007 (2007-01-12), was the third highest-grossing Turkish film of 2007. It is a sequel to The Masked Gang (2005) and was followed by The Masked Gang: Cyprus (2008). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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