The Herd (1979)

Original title

Sürü

Directed by

Zeki Ökten, Yılmaz Güney

Genre

drama film

Country

Turkey

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

15+

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

A peasant is forced by a family blood feud to drive his sheep to sell them in the distant city of Ankara. The journey becomes a struggle against harsh conditions and corrupt people.

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What happens

The Herd (Turkish: Sürü) is a 1978 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by Zeki Ökten and written by Yılmaz Güney during Güney's second imprisonment. It features Tarık Akan as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in faraway Ankara. According to Güney's own account, the development of the script of Sürü, began in 1973 in prison in Selimya and finished it while in prison in Izmit. The conditions to write were at times rather difficult, in Izmit he wrote in a room he shared together with eighty other inmates. The film, which went on nationwide general release on 27 September 1978 (1978-09-27), 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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