3 Supermen Against Godfather

3 Supermen Against Godfather (1979)

Süpermenler

The German professor tries out his time machine in Turkey. Everybody is after this new invention - Superman Detective Murat, his cheating colleagues Atak and Matrak as well as the mob leader. Agatha, the daughter of the mob leader, steals heroin with her father's man. The mob leader wants to detect their place by the time machine. Murat, Matrak and Atak struggle for the machine, but the machine blows up, the Professor loses his memory. Atak and Matrak kidnap him.

Date of release
1979-01-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction
Director
Italo Martinenghi
Collection
Three Supermen Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

3 Supermen Against the Godfather is a 1979 superhero film directed by Italo Martinenghi.

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.

Through Martinenghi's friend Guido Zurli, Martinenghi collaborated with Turkish film producer Türker İnanoğlu 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 The Phantom (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 Cüneyt Arkın, and Aldo Sambrell as the godfather who also co-produced the film with his Spanish company Asbrell.

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