The Herd (1978 film)

The Herd
Directed by	Zeki Ökten Yılmaz Güney
Produced by	Yılmaz Güney
Written by	Yılmaz Güney
Starring	Tarık Akan Tuncel Kurtiz Güler Ökten Yaman Okay Erol Demiröz
Music by	Zülfü Livaneli Melike Demirağ Şiwan Perwer
Cinematography	İzzet Akay
Edited by	Zeki Ökten
Distributed by	TurkishFilmChannel
Release dates	September 27, 1978 (1978-09-27)
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 far away Ankara. The film, which went on nationwide general release on September 27, 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.

Awards

• 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)

External links

• The Herd at IMDb
• TurkishFilmChannel Distributor page for the film