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- Turkish thriller film by

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. It stars

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and

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. The title song of the film is ''White Fire'', sung by rock group Limelight.

Plot

A brother (Ginty) and sister (Mayne), employees at a diamond mineshaft company, stumble upon the discovery of a legendary diamond, the "White Fire", and a band of criminals set out to take it from them.

Critical reception

In 2015, the film was featured on an episode of

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's ''Best of the Worst'', together with ''

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'' and '' The Jar''. The hosts criticized what they saw as frequent incestuous overtones present in the film, referring to it as "poorly disguised fetish porn".

References

External links

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Nanarland.com
French-language reviews of the film with images, sound files, video files and music

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