Year: 2004
Runtime: 127 mins
Language: Turkish
Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak
Carpet dealer and UFO photo forger Arif is abducted by aliens and must outwit the evil commander-in-chief of G.O.R.A., the planet where he is being held.
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Arif Cem Yılmaz makes a living by selling carpets and fake images of U.F.O.s. One day, he is abducted by aliens disguised as Prince Charles along with other humans. This abduction is carried out by planet G.O.R.A’s security chief Logar Trihis Cem Yılmaz as a grudge for the rape of an ancestor’s colleague who visited Earth in 1789. On the spaceship, Arif comes across a hologram image of Garavel Özkan Uğur who tells Arif that he can sense the Force within him and instructs Arif to look for him.
Upon landing on G.O.R.A, Arif continues to look for opportunities to escape but repeatedly fails. He builds up a friendship with inmates Faruk Rasim Öztekin, who is also the prison chef, and Robot-216 Ozan Güven. Robot-216 is a close confidant of Princess Ceku Özge Özberk who was demoted to prison by Logar. It is revealed that Logar plans to usurp the throne by marrying Princess Ceku despite her stubborn refusal. To carry out his plan, he sets a fireball towards G.O.R.A and asks for Ceku’s hand in return for saving the planet. Ceku’s father, King Tocha Cezmi Baskın, is forced to agree as the alternative option of using a sacred stone is hindered by the absence of the manual, which was stolen by Logar. But when Logar fails to fire-off his weapon, Arif comes to the rescue by performing a ritual spoofing The Fifth Element.
Logar is furious as it requires Arif to kiss Ceku. This leads him to blackmail King Tocha into agreeing Ceku’s marriage with him. However, Ceku learns from her mother that her real father is in fact an earthling. She sets off to find him with Arif, Faruk and Robot-216. But along the way, Logar’s men intercept and take Ceku back. At the same time, Arif meets Garavel Özkan Uğur who is an old acquaintance of Ceku’s father, who is revealed to have been a Turkish Air Force pilot who was abducted in 1978. With Garavel’s help, Arif gains special powers and storms Tocha’s castle to rescue Ceku during her engagement party with Logar. After a fight scene spoofing The Matrix, Arif defeats Logar and exposes his sinister plans to everybody. Arif and Ceku, who profess their love, return to Earth and live as a couple, but Arif continues to be disbelieved when he provides photos of his extraterrestrial experience.
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