by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful Abki Aga, is based on a novel by Yashar Kemal about Memed (Simon Dutton) a man who escapes into the Turkish hills with the woman he loves (Leonie Mellinger), a woman already betrothed to the nephew of the region's governor (Aga). Even though Memed joins a band of brigands he is not successful when he first tries to kill Aga, who lords it over five different villages and has a sizeable army, and so he tries again. Unfortunately, Turkey is not only the setting, but an apt descriptive term for this 105-minute film.
characteristics
- Assassination Plots
- Rebel
- Peasant
- Nudity
- Revolt
- Oppression
- Sex
- Woman
- Turkish [nationality]
- Tradition
- Nephew
- Revolution
- Naked
- Dying
- Death
