Osmanli Kartali

Osmanli Kartali (Ottoman Eagle) is a Turkish historic action movie by Osman F. Seden. Released in 1969, the film tells the story of the Turkish warlord İslam Bey, portrayed by Cuneyt Arkın. Islam Bey sneaks into the Russian castle where the plans of a Russian attack on the Ottoman territory is planned. 

He presents himself as a Russian prince to the commander of the castle and tries to slow down the war preparations of the Russian Side while the Ottoman forces are waiting a reinforcement.

One of the most interesting scenes of the film is the scene where İslam Bey orders the Russian commander to wait until the arrival of the "Kiev Imperial Army" to attack Turks. İslam Bey uses his sword on the portrait of the Tsar and cuts the portrait when he finishes his speech. More interesting than any of the Russian generals can't say anything about such a behavior is that the portrait he attacked clearly belongs to the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II.

One of the key aspects of the film is that, nearly, there are no outside scenes. Nearly all of the story takes place in a European sytle mansion, representing the Russian castle, and in a dungeon. The film also differs itself from many other historic action films of Cüneyt Arkın because it is about a more recent historical era of the Ottoman Empire when it is compared to the Battal Gazi, Kara Murat and Malkoçoğlu movies that have their settings in early Ottoman era, Ghazi tradition and the rise of the Ottoman Empire.