Tarkan, the first movie of the cult Tarkan series, was truly adapted from the homonym comic book that is started to be drawn in 1966 by famous caricaturist Sezgin Burak. After its release it became one of the most famous series of Turkish Cinema. The leading character Tarkan was raised by a wolf in the wild nature without any human impact, thereby Tarkan is completely fearless and daredevil person who fight always together with a wolf.
The movie takes places in the historical context when Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire began to attempt to invade Europe; the prominent leaders of the era like Attila, emperor of Huns; Genseriko, King of Vandals and Valentinianus, emperor of Roman Empire are in a bloody struggle to capture the sword of Mars (Roman god of war) which is believed to promote ownership of whole world to whom possess. This struggle to capture this sword is displayed by the adventures of Tarkan who is the loyal and brave warrior of Atilla the Hun.
The movie should be considered as an accomplished one in accordance with its shooting period- the late '60s; the costumes and the film set were designed and chosen in compliance with historicity, in other word remained loyal to conditions of the period with the exception of some small-scale errors. Moreover, the famous music of the film was taken from the 'Moderato' part of fifth symphony by a soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich, I seriously think this music is well-selected and voluminously enhances the quality of movie. One another high point of the movie is the daring erotic scenes and nudity which are thoroughly increased with the subsequent movies of the Tarkan series.
The movie takes places in the historical context when Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire began to attempt to invade Europe; the prominent leaders of the era like Attila, emperor of Huns; Genseriko, King of Vandals and Valentinianus, emperor of Roman Empire are in a bloody struggle to capture the sword of Mars (Roman god of war) which is believed to promote ownership of whole world to whom possess. This struggle to capture this sword is displayed by the adventures of Tarkan who is the loyal and brave warrior of Atilla the Hun.
The movie should be considered as an accomplished one in accordance with its shooting period- the late '60s; the costumes and the film set were designed and chosen in compliance with historicity, in other word remained loyal to conditions of the period with the exception of some small-scale errors. Moreover, the famous music of the film was taken from the 'Moderato' part of fifth symphony by a soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich, I seriously think this music is well-selected and voluminously enhances the quality of movie. One another high point of the movie is the daring erotic scenes and nudity which are thoroughly increased with the subsequent movies of the Tarkan series.