Sürü - The herd
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sürü - The herd |
| Original title | Sürü |
| Country of production | Turkey |
| original language | Turkish |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Zeki Ökten Yılmaz Güney |
| script | Yılmaz Güney |
| music | Zülfü Livaneli |
| camera | İzzet Akay |
| cut | Ozdemir Aritan |
| occupation | |
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Sürü - Die Herd (also Die Herd ) is a film by the Kurdish - Turkish actor, director and screenwriter Yılmaz Güney from 1978. Since Güney was imprisoned during the entire development process, Zeki Ökten directed the film in consultation with Güney.
action
The young nomad Şivan tries to free himself from the Anatolian pastoral culture together with his sick wife Berivan. Şivan is the son of Hamos, the patriarch of the Veysikan tribe, who is in a blood feud with the Halilan tribe. Berivan is also a member of the Halilans who was married to Şivan as part of a peace agreement. Despite the hostility of the two tribes, the relationship between the two is based on affection. But although Berivan was three times pregnant, all the children were born dead. Patriarch Hamo blames Berivan for the stillbirths and suspects intent. He wants to exclude her from the tribe, which leads to renewed tension with the Halilan tribe. Şivan, on the other hand, believes his wife is sick and wants to take her to a doctor, which Hamo refuses to do.
Şivan hopes to find a way out of this hostile environment and a treatment for Berivan's suffering in the big city. When the Veysikans are asked by sheep traders to drive a herd to Ankara for sale, Şivan uses this as leverage to take Berivan away for treatment. He succeeds in enforcing his demand against the initial resistance of Hamos. Together with his father and his brothers Abuzer and Silo, Şivan drives the herd towards Ankara. But the journey is unfortunate. On the way they have to pay numerous bribes in the form of sheep, some animals are poisoned, Abuzer is finally left behind with the dead animals at a train station. Once in Ankara, the sheep traders refuse to pay for the animals. The Veysikans are forced to stay in Ankara. When Şivan takes his wife to a doctor, she refuses to seek treatment. One morning, Şivan finds her dead in bed. Desperate, he asks his father for the money for the transfer, but the latter refuses, because he does not see Berivan as part of the family. By the contemptuous testimony of a nearby sheep dealer, Şivan is completely enraged and strangles the man, the police then arrest him. Later on, Şivan's brother Silo also breaks away from his father and disappears into the streets of the capital, Hamo ultimately remains alone.
Taking the Veysikan family as an example, the film shows the decay of patriarchal structures in eastern Turkey. Hamo is a tyrant who directs and suppresses all people around him according to his ideas. But nobody dares to rebel against him, his brutal arbitrariness up to bodily harm is accepted by all involved without resistance. Berivan, on the other hand, symbolizes the oppression of women in this system. As a pledge for a failed peace attempt in a blood feud, she is completely at the mercy of physical violence. In addition, since she cannot give birth to children, the contempt for her is particularly great and makes her the weakest member in the hierarchy. Her own supposedly loving husband also uses violence against her. Berivan's only reaction to their situation is silence. But the big city, which is so tempting for many, does not turn out to be the hoped-for liberation. Their representatives are consistently portrayed as corrupt. Because of this hopelessness, the family finally breaks up.
production
The script comes from the pen of the Kurdish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1974 for the alleged murder of a Turkish judge. Güney developed the script under the title Berivan ile Şivan (German: Berivan and Şivan ). He made the acquaintance of the graphic artist Uğurcan Yüce through a fellow inmate . He finally persuaded him to name the film Sürü (German: The Herd ) and also designed the Turkish film poster for Güney. Zeki Ökten directed the imprisoned Güney.
Like Umut - The Hope , Yol - The Way and Duvar - The Wall, Sürü has a documentary basis. The film reflects the history and situation of the Kurds in Turkey. According to Güney, the film is influenced by the history of the Jibran tribe from which his mother came. In an interview, Güney regretted that he could not shoot the film in the Kurdish language, since otherwise there would have been a risk of arrest for everyone involved.
reception
Reviews
"A harsh accusation against corruption and violence in Turkish society and a convincing study on the clash of two cultures, formally perfect and in terms of political commitment of convincing power."
In 2004, Sürü was voted one of the ten best Turkish films in a survey by the Ankara Film Association (Ankara Sinema Derneği) supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as were Güney's films Umut - The Hope and Yol - The Way . These were shown at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival from July 2nd to 10th, 2004.
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival 1979
- INTERFILM Award - Otto Sibelius Prize
- OCIC Award
British Film Institute Awards 1979
- Sutherland Trophy
Locarno International Film Festival 1979
- Golden leopard
- Special Mention
Antwerp Film Festival 1979
- Grand Prize
17th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 1980/2011
- Best Actor
- Best main actress
- Best director
- Best movie
- Best music
- Best supporting actor
London Film Festival 1980
- Most Original and Imaginative Film
Valencia Film Festival 1980
- Grand Prize
Web links
- Sürü - The herd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Turkish Film Channel (International Distributor)
- Jury of Evangelical Film Work : Film of the Month: February 1980 , with scan (PDF; 1.6 MB) of the information sheet from the 9th International Forum of Young Film Berlin (1979). Retrieved March 8, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sema Poyraz: Information sheet from the 9th International Forum for Young Films Berlin (1979) (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ↑ : "Liberation will be like an earthquake" . In: Der Spiegel . tape 48 , November 29, 1982 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Ugurcan Yüce Video Game Credits and Biography - MobyGames. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ^ Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Freiburg: Portrait and filmography by Ylmaz Güney (seminar paper). Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ↑ Chris Kutschera: Interview with Yilmaz Güney from 1983 in English
- ↑ The herd. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Hürriyet (June 11, 2006): En iyi 10 Türk filmi Karlovy Vary'de (Turkish) , accessed on March 8, 2013.