''Tarkan Versus the Vikings'' ( tr, Tarkan Viking Kanı) is a 1971 Turkish

action film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...

, directed by

Ertem Eğilmez Ertem Eğilmez (18 February 1929, in Trabzon – 21 September 1989, in Istanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known as the name behind some of the most popular films in Turkish film history. Many of these we ...

based on a comic strip by

Sezgin Burak Sezgin is a common Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Sezgin" means "(someone) who is insightful" or "(someone) who is capable of intuition". The name is used as surname, as well. Given name * Sezgin Tanrıkulu (born 1963), MP in the Turkish Grand ...

, starring

Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet (27 March 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Turkish actor and film director. Some of his famous films include ''Ölmeyen Aşk'', ''Dağlar Kızı'', ''Senede Bir Gün'', ''Sultan'', ''Zübük'', ''Gol Kralı'', and '' Şalvar Davası''. T ...

as fictional Hunnic warrior Tarkan, who vows revenge against

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

raiders after they ambush him and leave him for dead. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , was the fifth in a series of seven films based on the comic strip character and was released in the USA in 2005 by

Mondo Macabro Mondo Macabro is an American-based home video distribution company founded in 2002 by Pete Tombs and Andy Starke. Their focus is releasing cult and exploitation films on DVD and Blu-ray and was named after Tombs' 1997 book '' Mondo Macabro: We ...

on a double-bill DVD with ''

The Deathless Devil ''The Deathless Devil'' ( tr, Yılmayan Şeytan) is a 1972 Turkish action film, co-written, produced and directed by Yılmaz Atadeniz, starring Kunt Tulgar as a young man who takes up his father's mantle as masked crimefighter Copperhead to def ...

''.

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* 1971 films Turkish action films 1970s Turkish-language films Films set in Turkey Films set in the 5th century Films based on Turkish comics Live-action films based on comics Turkish sequel films {{Turkey-film-stub