Sürü
Yılmaz Güney, Zeki Ökten
A long-standing feud exists between two nomadic sheep-herding families. Even the marriage of their children, Berivan and Sivan, does not end it. Berivan has already had three miscarriages and, since, no longer speaks. Not without reticence, her father accepts to let Sivan take the family herd to Ancara with Berivan, hoping to have her examined by a doctor in the capital...
With : Melike Demirağ, Tarık Akan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Şenel Gökkaya, Levent Yalman
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Izzet Akay
Sound : Tuncer Aydinoğlu
Music : Zülfü Livaneli
Editing : Özdemir Arıtan
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Izzet Akay
Sound : Tuncer Aydinoğlu
Music : Zülfü Livaneli
Editing : Özdemir Arıtan
Production : Güney Film
Source copie : Institut Kurde de Paris
Source copie : Institut Kurde de Paris
The Herd was shot after Zavallilar (The Suffering Ones, 1975). Awarded at the Locarno Film Festival, it was a box-office success abroad. Yilmaz Güney was never physically behind the camera on the film sets. "All the same, what makes a film a success is a good script, and in prison I had the time to meticulously put it together. My assistants were faithful to my camera instructions. I explained the roles to them by imitating each one. I found all the film locations during my prison furloughs. (...) I feel it's my responsibility to show life as it is in today's Turkey. (...)" My stories "are stories of nomads that also reflect the basic movement in Turkey which is that of exodus. (...)" (Yilmaz Güney)