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Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1983 DVD Release: 01/27/2009 Format: DVD - Color Edition: Restored/Remastered SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: New Star Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama

This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful Abki Aga, is based on a novel by Yashar Kemal about Memed (Simon Dutton) a man who escapes into the Turkish hills with the woman he loves (Leonie Mellinger), a woman already betrothed to the nephew of the region's governor (Aga). Even though Memed joins a band of brigands he is not successful when he first tries to kill Aga, who lords it over five different villages and has a sizeable army, and so he tries again. Unfortunately, Turkey is not only the setting, but an apt descriptive term for this 105-minute film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Peter Ustinov - Abdi Aga
Herbert Lom - Ali Safa
Simon Dutton - Memed
Denis Quilley - Rejeb
Michael Elphick - Jabbar