COLOGNE, Germany -- The political firestorm started in Germany with the release of Turkish war film Valley Of The Wolves: Iraq shows little sign of dying down. With German politicians and many journalists attacking Wolves as anti-American and anti-Semitic in its depiction of U.S. forces in Iraq, the movie's producer and screenwriter came to Berlin to defend it. "We wanted to make an anti-war film... It wasn't about trying to use (anti-American) cliches, this is about what's happening in Iraq," Wolves screenplay writer Bahadir Ozdener said at a press conference Friday at Berlin's Grand Hyatt Hotel. Together with Wolves producer and co-writer Raci Sasmaz, Ozdener accused critics of using a double standard in judging the film. Though Wolves is, in many ways, a run-of-the-mill action movie, the good guys are all Turkish and Muslim. The bad guys, played by Billy Zane and Gary Busey, are American and/or Jewish.
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