Bride of the Earth
Seyyit Han
Yılmaz Güney
After years of wandering and combat, a man returns to his village in Anatolia to marry his fiancée. This man, Seyvit Han, who everyone took for dead, is a real legend. In the meantime, however, the young woman's brother promised his sister to another man. She doesn't dare cancel the wedding, but it is Seyvit Han that she loves. Her husband challenges Seyvit to a dual that has a tragic outcome.
With : Yılmaz Güney, Nabahat Çehre, Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Danyal Topatan
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Gani Turanlı
Editing : Sezai Elmaskaya
Music : Nedim Otyam
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Gani Turanlı
Editing : Sezai Elmaskaya
Music : Nedim Otyam
Production : Güney Film
Source copie : Institut Güney (Istanbul)
Source copie : Institut Güney (Istanbul)
In the sixties, Yilmaz Güney was one of the most popular actors in Turkey. Nicknamed "the ugly king", he played in some hundred commercial films. He became interested in directing and shot a few films including At Avrat Silah (Horse, Woman and Gun) in 1966. Bride of the Earth is considered Yilmaz Güney's first really personal film: it ‘s a love story based on an Anatolian legend in which he plays the main character. If he turns his back on the film genres (melodramas, dramas, musicals...) that made him famous at Yesilcam, Istanbul's Hollywood, he offers us an admirable film that experiments with a curious mixture of the western and sociological satire.