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Dry summer ( Turkey 1964 )

Color: Fiction, bn 75’

Direction: Metin Erksan

Screenplay: Necati Cumali, Metin Erksan Kemal Ínci, Ísmet Soydan

Director of Photography: Ali Ugur

Editing: Turgut Ínangiray

Cast: Ulvi Dogan (Hassan), Erol Tas (Osman), Hülya Koçyigit (Bahar)

Production: Ulvi Dogan

Synopsis

Dry Summer shows the confrontation between two brothers: Osman surrounds the water that springs from their lands with barriers to prevent the village from using it. Being a good man, Hassan argues that the others should also use the water. Confessing a murder actually committed by his brother, Hassan is sent to jail. After his release he learns that Osman used deception to take away his wife and marry her…

Réalisateur

Metin Erksan is a prominent figure of the tucinema in Turkey. He started as a late 1950s film critic, later he spent writing scenario and achieve. It is one of the first filmmakers to explore the peasant world Turkish. It is required by the originality of his cinematic universe, where the themes of the impossible love and loneliness seep into his more realistic works, for which he has had trouble with censorship. It also runs many television and often divided criticism, both by the uneven quality of his films than by its intellectual, high position taken in color