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Malkocoglu Cem Sultan is a Turkish historic action film by Remzi Aydın
Jonturk. It is one of the numerous collaborations between the famous
actor Cüneyt Arkın and Remzi Jonturk. The film belongs to the wave of
historic films in the Turkish cinema. The film is about the popular
comics character of Ayhan Başoğlu, Malkocoglu.
The main character of the film actually has real historical basis as
Malkocoglu was regarded as one of the loyal Akıncı families of the
Ottoman Empire. The film is the dramatization of Başoğlu's comic book
of the same name and tells the story of the life struggle of Cem Sultan
and how Akıncıs help him. The leader of the Akıncı troops, Malkoçoğlu,
trusts a peasant, Polat, and accepts him into his army and gives him
the mission to safely guide Cem Sultan to his Frenk allies. Cüneyt
Arkın portrays two characters in the film, as a part of his trademark
style.
Showing the class differences in society during the mid Ottoman era is
one of the key elements of the film. Poor peasant Polat has to kill a
wealthy landlord because he tries to take Polat’s lover away from him
by stating that a peasant even doesn’t have the right to talk to such a
powerful person. This depiction is a classic of Remzi Jöntürk films,
even for the action based ones. The film also has references to the
medieval understanding of honour and how it was, in some cases, more
important than state affair
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