Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (English: The Man Who Saves The World) is a 1982 Turkish science fantasy martial arts superhero adventure film directed by Çetin İnanç,[1][2] and starring actor/martial artist Cüneyt Arkın.

Murat and Ali crash land on an alien desert planet following a battle (shown by using footage from Star Wars and newsreel clips of Soviet and American rocket launches).

Ali uses his "irresistible" wolf-whistling to lure in the imagined women, attracting the attention of a group of skeletons on horseback, which they defeat in hand-to-hand combat.

He had tried to defeat Earth's forces but had been repelled by a "shield of concentrated human brain molecules" (depicted with footage of the Death Star).

The three flee the cave and find a local bar (footage of the Mos Eisley cantina lifted directly from Star Wars).

Other actors include Aytekin Akkaya who later starred in the Italian film Sopravvissuti della città morta, as well as Hüseyin Peyda and Füsun Uçar both of whom remained in Turkey.

Other scenes incorporated the music of Moonraker, Ben-Hur, Flash Gordon, Giorgio Moroder's version of Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, Moses and Disney's The Black Hole.

In the scene where Cüneyt Arkın and Aytekin Akkaya find the graves of old civilizations, the director selected Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata to play.

Music from Star Wars' Academy Award winning John Williams score appears, but less extensively than footage from the film.

[1] BBC News notes that Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam was part of a wave of low-budget Turkish superhero films produced during the 1970s to early 1980s.

Çetin İnanç proposed his own ideas for a much grander sequel, involving the creation of "zombie ninja space warriors," and the abduction of the Turkish and American presidents by aliens, and a journey to a planet that is on the other side of a black hole.

"[10] Foleyvision, an Austin, Texas-based comedy troupe who showed films replacing the original soundtrack with new dialogue, music, and sound-effects live in the theatre, used Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam as one of their performances in 2004, providing what troupe leader Buzz Moran said was "the first English translation of this film ever in the world.

Filmusik, a Portland, Oregon-based collaborative performance group, similarly screened Turkish Star Wars with live voiceovers, music, and sound effects in late 2012.