On Fertile Lands (1980)
Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
- Date of release
- 1980-01-02
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Erden Kıral
Casting
- Tuncel Kurtiz — Zeynel
- Erkan Yücel — Yusuf
- Yaman Okay — Ali
- Nur Sürer — Fatma
- Bülent Kayabaş — Harman Sahibi
- Menderes Samancılar — Irgat
- Erol Demiröz — Harman Ustası
- Nuri Sezer — Irgat Çavuşu
- Selçuk Uluergüven — Irgat Çavuşu
- Osman Alyanak — Topal Aga
- Kaplan Tarsuslu
- Semih Basay — Kahya Bilal
Interesting facts
On Fertile Lands is a 1980 Turkish drama film, directed by Erden Kıral based on a story by Orhan Kemal, featuring Tuncel Kurtiz as the head of a group of day labourers looking for work in the Çukurova region. "The story," according to Rekin Teksoy, "became a legend about village farm labourers, their merciless conditions, their hopes, their pain and their goldenhearts." It won Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the Strasbourg Film Festival and two Golden Oranges at the 18th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.
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