''Hakanlar Çarpışıyor'' (''

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Are Fighting'') is a Turkish historic action film by Natuk Baytan. It was released in 1977, during the most popular days of the Turkish historic films. The film is about the life of a Turkic warrior named Olcayto, portrayed by

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, who is the son of a Kyrgyz chief in

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. When he was a small boy, Chinese troops attack their tribe and kill Olcayto's father. After this event, he decides to take revenge from Chinese warlords. Later, he would find a chance to do so when Chinese form an alliance with a

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from

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, who uses all his efforts to kill Olcayto because of the love affair between his daughter and Olcayto. One of the main motives of the film is the ''"Bozkır Yasası"'' (Law of the

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). During many key scenes of the film, characters act according to this notion which praises the success of a warrior. This also gives the film a nationalistic flavour which can be considered as an "essential" point of the genre. Writer Erdoğan Tünaş possibly got his inspiration from Karaoğlan, the popular character of

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. Both Olcayto and Karaoğlan are from Central Asia, they are talented warriors, they have noble black horses and they both use swords which have

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figures on their handles. Another important detail of the film is that Cüneyt Arkın's partner in it is Aytekin Akkaya, the same actor who also stars in the Turkish cult film ''

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'' with Arkın.

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as Halit,Olcayto and Başbuğ Toluğ (triple role) * Bahar Erdeniz as Zeliha, Olcayto's wife * Aytekin Akkaya as Tegin Khan *

Hüseyin Peyda Hussein, Hossein, Hussain, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein, Hussin, Hoessein, Houcine, Hocine or Husain (; ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N (), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or ...

as Sheikh Malik * Turgut Özatay as Tun-Kay * Hikmet Taşdemir - Kabir * Reha Yurdakul - Celme Noyan * Levent Çakır - Sungur * Sönmez Yıkılmaz - Demirbilek El-Cerrah * Arseven Gümüş - Khaan * Süheyl Eğriboz - Kim-Yu * Mehmet Uğur - Çinli * Necdet Kökeş - Çakır * Cemal Konca - Şen-Kin * Muzaffer Cıvan - Moğol * Arap Celal - Hancı * Niyazi Er - Tağmaç Beyi * Yılmaz Kurt - Çinli * Kadir Kök - Çinli/Kara Sadi * Hakkı Kıvanç - Sheikh Malik * Ahmet Sert - Boğaç Usta * Doğan Tamer * Hamit Haskabal - Khan's henchman * Asım Par - Çinli * Yadigar Ejder - Cellat * Oktar Durukan - Yantar

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* 1977 films 1977 action films Films set in Turkey 1970s historical adventure films Turkish historical adventure films Historical action films Turkish swashbuckler films Films set in Asia Films set in ancient India Films set in Kyrgyzstan Turkish films about revenge 1970s Turkish-language films {{Turkey-film-stub

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