Remake, Remix, Rip-Off

In the 60s and 70s Turkey was home to one of the world's biggest film industries, even though it wasn´t prepared for it. Soon the filmmakers ran out of topics and they began copying scripts and movies from all over the world. Name any Western hit film, there's a Turkish version to it, be it Tarzan, The Wizard of Oz, The Exorcist, Rambo, Superman or Star Wars. These quickly and low-budget produced look-alike movies were adapted to the taste of local audiences with huge success in the rural Anatolian hinterland. What they lacked in equipment and budget they compensated through excessive use of manpower both behind and in front of the camera: If Luke Skywalker hits one time, Turkish action hero Cüneyt Arkın hits a hundred times – and we know, he means it! Remix, Remake, Rip-Off took 7 years in making in which Kaya watched thousands of movies and conducted about a hundred interviews. (Berlinale)