Türker İnanoğlu - 5555 Afişle Türk Sineması - 2004

Title: 5555 Afişle Türk Sineması (5555 Posters of Turkish Cinema)
Written by: Türker İnanoğlu
Published by: Kabalcı Yayınları (Istanbul, 2004)

Pages: 1100
Language: Turkish (just title names, director names and year of production + some pages of introduction)

Dimensions: 30 cm x 22 cm x 7 cm
Weight: 3,5 kg

"5555 Afişle Türk Sineması" (5555 Turkish cinema poster) by Türker Inanoglu, ed. Kabalcı Yayınları (Istanbul, 2004) A massive 1,100-page, 3.5-kg book compiled by the magnate and main historical producer of Turkish cinema, Türker İnanoğlu

It reproduces 5,555 posters from the origins of cinema in Turkey to 2004, although the bulk of production is concentrated between the late 1950s and the first half of the 1980s, with thousands upon thousands of films: historical, religious, adventure, drama, social, and comedies, but also Turkish-style spaghetti westerns, thrillers and horror, science fiction, rip-offs of American blockbusters, superheroes and above all many films based on comics, both Italian and otherwise as well as comedy modeled on the Italian erotic genre of the '70s and '80s with teachers, professors, voyeuristic students, naked and scantily clad girls (Turkey in the late '70s enjoyed incredible freedom of morality despite being under a military dictatorship)

In short, a colorful and incredible gallery of all known and existing movie posters.
The book was released in 2004, but it's been completely unavailable for 10 years now. I remember when the publishing house went bankrupt, they sold the last remaining copies, around 2010, before disappearing completely. Today, it can be found for disproportionately high prices, even in Turkey itself, but in the last 10 years of traveling, this is only the second copy I've found. In relatively excellent condition considering both the size of the volume (a 3.5 kg brick with 1,100 pages) and the binding, which often tends to fall apart.