My attention was recently brought to a 2011 Turkish film directed by Zübeyr Şaşmaz called 'The Valley of the Wolves: Palestine' which is a cinematic dramatisation of a fictional Turkish response to the Israeli attack on the 'Gaza Freedom Flotilla' of the 31st May 2010.
It's rare to find any recent movie that steps outside Holocaust strictures. The Turkish made Valley of the Wolves: Palestine, tho a mediocre action movie, sounds overtly anti-Zionist, anti-Israel and therefore a kind of passing guilty pleasure. Thanks for the review.
I just watched Operation Napoleon, another recent mediocre action movie, about a crashed Nazi plane which buried itself into an Icelandic glacier at the end of WW2. Its crew dead and its mission mysterious, both amateur and professional expeditions seek to uncover the secrets of wreckage exposed by global warming.
What first caught my attention was a passing reference to Nazi ufo technology which might have been its coveted cargo. But rather than pursue this more interesting motif, the movie settles on the conventional trope of looted Nazi gold and art valuables stolen from Jews that were to be ferreted to the US in exchange for sanctuary from post war persecution. Hitler, Ava and Blondi, their dog to be granted asylum on an island off Patagonia (offering a teaser as to a possible sequel).
Other than showing US govt complicity in Nazi war crimes, the inclusion of a sadistic black female officer on the semi-official recovery team as a bona fide villain was even more shocking in our woke racial/gender climate. I think there must have been neo-con backing behind it. No liberal money would sponsor such a depiction of character.
It's rare to find any recent movie that steps outside Holocaust strictures. The Turkish made Valley of the Wolves: Palestine, tho a mediocre action movie, sounds overtly anti-Zionist, anti-Israel and therefore a kind of passing guilty pleasure. Thanks for the review.
I just watched Operation Napoleon, another recent mediocre action movie, about a crashed Nazi plane which buried itself into an Icelandic glacier at the end of WW2. Its crew dead and its mission mysterious, both amateur and professional expeditions seek to uncover the secrets of wreckage exposed by global warming.
What first caught my attention was a passing reference to Nazi ufo technology which might have been its coveted cargo. But rather than pursue this more interesting motif, the movie settles on the conventional trope of looted Nazi gold and art valuables stolen from Jews that were to be ferreted to the US in exchange for sanctuary from post war persecution. Hitler, Ava and Blondi, their dog to be granted asylum on an island off Patagonia (offering a teaser as to a possible sequel).
Other than showing US govt complicity in Nazi war crimes, the inclusion of a sadistic black female officer on the semi-official recovery team as a bona fide villain was even more shocking in our woke racial/gender climate. I think there must have been neo-con backing behind it. No liberal money would sponsor such a depiction of character.