The Land (1999)

Ax

Revolving around an old man who refuses to leave his otherwise evacuated village in Kurdish Turkey, "Ax (The Land)" is a twenty-seven-minute long short film about the forced deportations of Kurdish villages by the Turkish military.

Date of release

1999-11-10

TMDB

7.5 / 10 (4)

Runtime

28m

Genres

Drama, War

Director

Kazım Öz

Casting

• Hikmet Daragöz — Zelo
• Yildiz Gultekin — Zele's Wife
• Murat Batgi — Cafer
• Muhlis Asan — Cerdevan
• Ali Koroglu — Cerdevan
• Hikmet Toktas — Cerdevan

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