Süpermenler

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Süpermenler
Directed by	Italo Martinenghi
Produced by	Türker İnanoğlu Italo Martinenghi
Written by	Toni Corti Fuat Özlüer
Starring	Cüneyt Arkın Sal Borgese Nick Jordan Güngör Bayrak
Release date(s)	1979
Language	Turkish

Süpermenler is a Turkish-Italian action film which was heavily inspired by the superhero, Superman. Filmed in 1979, it is starring Cüneyt Arkın, the popular name of action films. It was filmed in the popular places of İstanbul, like Emirgan.

A German professor, portrayed by Ali Şen, constructs a time machine and decides to try it in Turkey and he finds out the place where the Byzantine treasury was hided during the Fall of Constantinople. After this event, the mafia and the world powers start to fight for the ownership of the time machine. Mafia boss wants to find out the destiny of his lost heroine and the world powers want to rule their enemies via the machine. Murat (Cüneyt Arkın), one of the three Süpermenler, a band of detective superheroes, wants to help the German scientist. They manage to save the world in the end.

The film gained a cult status because of its heavy imitation of the Western superhero and detective films of its time and somehow similar to the Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, which is named as the “Turkish Star Wars” by many. The main reason behind making such films was the lack of the original movies in the Turkish market during late 1970s and early 1980s because of the political conditions of the country. Of course, Turkish entrepreneurs were making those films by using way less capital than their Western colleagues. This economic doctrine caused an original flavor for such films and helped them to be accepted as cult pieces. In Süpermenler, the fancy hero costumes and poor fighting scenes were the key elements which show the notion of those days.