The Herd (1978 film)
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| The Herd | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | |
| Written by | Yılmaz Güney |
| Produced by | Yılmaz Güney |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | İzzet Akay |
| Edited by | Zeki Ökten |
| Music by | |
| Distributed by | TurkishFilmChannel |
Release date |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
The Herd (Turkish: Sürü) is a 1978 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by Yılmaz Güney with Zeki Ökten during Güney's second imprisonment, featuring Tarık Akan as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in faraway Ankara. According to his own account, the development of the script of Sürü, began in 1973 in prison in Selimya and finished it while in prison in Izmit.[1] The conditions to write were at times rather difficult, in Izmit he wrote in a room he shared together with eighty other inmates.[1] The film, which went on nationwide general release on 27 September 1978 (1978年09月27日), was screened in competition at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won Interfilm and OCIC Awards, the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won Golden Leopard and Special Mention, was scheduled to compete in the cancelled 17th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, for which it received 6 Belated Golden Oranges, including Best Film and Best Director, was awarded the BFI Sutherland Trophy and was voted one of the 10 Best Turkish Films by the Ankara Cinema Association.
Awards
[edit ]- 17th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Film (won)
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Director: Zeki Ökten (won, also for The Enemy )
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Music: Zülfü Livaneli (won)
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Actress: Melike Demirağ (won, shared with Güngör Bayrak for The Enemy)
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Actor: Tarık Akan (won, also for The Sacrifice , shared with Aytaç Arman for The Enemy)
- Belated Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor: Tuncel Kurtiz (won)
- Belgian Film Critics Association: Grand Prix (won)
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Johnston, Sheila (1981). "Yilmaz Güney: An Interview". Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media (15/17): 7–8. ISSN 0306-7661.
External links
[edit ]- The Herd at IMDb
- TurkishFilmChannel Distributor page for the film Archived 2012年05月02日 at the Wayback Machine
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