''3 Supermen Against the Godfather'' ( it, 3 supermen contro il padrino, tr, Süpermenler) is a

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directed by Italo Martinenghi.

Plot

A German professor (

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) constructs a

time machine Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...

and decides to experiment with it in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. He discovers where the Byzantines hid their treasury during the Fall of Constantinople. After this success becomes known, the mafia and world powers fight for the ownership of the time machine. The boss of the mafia wants to find his lost heroin and the world powers want to rule their enemies via the machine. Murat (Cüneyt Arkın) and the other "Süpermenler", a band of three detective superheroes, come to the aid of the German scientist and manage to save the world in the end.

Cast

* Aldo Canti as Atak *

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as Matrak *

Cüneyt Arkın Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (8 September 1937 – 28 June 2022), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, was a Turkish film actor, director, producer and martial artist. Having starred in somewhere around 300 movies and TV series, he is wi ...

as Detective Murat/Agent Brad * Aldo Sambrell as Baba Jackson * Güngör Bayrak as Agata * Übsak Emre as Agata's lover

Production

The time between when Italo Martinenghi directed '' The 3 Supermen in the West'' and ''3 Supermen Against the Godfather'' was a time of backlash within the Italian film industry. With the rising popularity of television in Italy ticket, box office fell from 455 million to 374 million from 1976 and 1977. In 1979, this had diminished further to 276 million. This led to some filmmakers in Italy to move their productions to Turkey where they could create

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for less demanding and more enthusiastic audiences. Through Martinenghi's friend Guido Zurli, Martinenghi collaborated with Turkish film producer

Türker İnanoğlu Türker İnanoğlu (born May 18, 1936) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer. Life He married first the film actress Filiz Akın, and after his divorce Gülşen Bubikoğlu, another former Turkish movie star. He has two children ...

to start his second entry in the ''Three Supermen'' film series. Superhero films were popular in Turkey, a country which had produced its own renditions of superhero films such as

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('' Kizil Maske'' (1968)) Superman ('' Süpermen Fantom'ya Karst'' (1969)) and '' 3 Dev Adam'' featuring El Santo, Captain America, and Spider-Man. The film cast Aldo Canti who had starred in previous ''3 Supermen'' films, Turkish actor

, and Aldo Sambrell as the godfather who also co-produced the film with his Spanish company Asbrell.

Release

''3 Supermen Against the Godfather'' was released in Turkey in 1979 and in Italy in 1980. Italian film historian described its release as "practically never distributed" and that it was a film that only surfaced on home video about a quarter of a century later. The film was followed by two sequels: ''Three Supermen at the Olympic Games'' (1984) and ''Three Supermen in S. Domingo'' (1986).

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* 1979 films Films set in Turkey Films about time travel 1970s superhero films Italian superhero films Turkish superhero films Spanish superhero films Apocalyptic films Films scored by Nico Fidenco 1979 multilingual films Turkish multilingual films Italian multilingual films 1970s Italian films {{Turkey-film-stub