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In 1982, Turkish director Çetin İnanç filmed Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, which translates into the fascinating title The Man Who Saves The World but is more commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notoroious usage of bootlegged Star Wars footage worked into the film.

I've heard bemused mutterings about it in the secret dens of comic stores for years, but I'd never seen it. God bless Google Video: they've got the whole thing online. It's pretty wacky: after crash landing on Cappadoccia, Ataturk's answer to Han Solo punches out a bunch of guys dressed in brightly colored papier mache costumes.

The subtitles are a hoot too: "Earth was facing the danger of extinction as a result of a crazy nuclear armament! Our world which had been formed into matter from rays and energy five billion years ago got fragmented into dust clouds under the influence of laser rays in the galaxy age."

*solemn nod* A parable to us all about the dangers of crazy nuclear armament.