Tunç Başaran (October 1, 1938 – December 18, 2019) was a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor.
After attending the Faculty of Literature for a while he left school and started working as a script writer for the director Memduh Ün.
He then continued to be the assistant of Memduh Ün for a long time.
Meanwhile, he also worked as assistant for such directors as Ömer Lütfi Akad, Halit Refiğ, Atıf Yılmaz, Ertem Göreç.
In 1964 he directed his first feature Survival.
By 1962, he had directed about 40 films.
After 1972, he switched to commercials.
He directed Don't Let Them Shoot The Kite in 1989.
He served on the advisory board of the Istanbul International Film Festival.
Captain Swing is a French nobleman who is shipwrecked in America and raised by Indians. Later after his adopted father's hanging, he leads a group of patriots called 'Ontario's Wolves' against the hated British Red Coats.
A young girl named Aysecik lives on her parents' farm, when an animated tornado carries her and her dog Banju in their house to Rüyalar Ulkesinde (Dreamland). Seven Cüceler (dwarfs) (dressed like MGM Munchkin soldiers, only red and white) who assist the Good Witch of the North appear at various times to help. She meets a Scarecrow, an Iron Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion, and dances to music from what appears to be an invisible radio. They encounter fighting trees, a river, and a country of China dolls on their way to the Wizard, a ball of fire who sends them after the Wicked Witch who enslaves them. When the Wizard is unable to help Aysecik get home, they must journey again for help, encountering the China Country once more, and a legion of hammer-throwing cavemen.
Turkish adaptation of the novel “Deadline at Dawn” by Cornell Woolrich.