Turkish film Wolf Valley – Iraq on the latest war in Iraq was the most high-cost picture in the history of the Turkish cinema and it beat all distribution records in the country, reported Reuters. Ten million dollars were spent on the film and over 3 million people saw it in the first fortnight. Tickets are well sold in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands and the film is planned to be screened in the UK and other countries. The film hero is Polat Alemdar, a Turkish special service agent in Iraq, while a US commander is a negative hero. The film authors emphasize it is based on actual events, while critics view it as a dangerous chauvinist pamphlet, the Times writes. Meanwhile, the film reflects anti-American and anti-Semitic moods spread in Turkey today. Thus, during the screenings, when the US officer gets his deserved punishment, the audience applauded. A country, where everything American was popular, stops viewing the US as a close ally, the British edition concludes. Specifically, Turks were displeased with insufficient in their opinion opposition of the US to Kurdish separatists in Iraq. The newspaper notes the popularity of nationalist views, demonstrated in, for example, refusal of Turks to recognize mass slaughter of Armenians in 1915.
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