--- title: 'The Herd (1979)' type: 'film' director: 'Yılmaz Güney' released: '1979-02-01' runtime_minutes: 129 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Turkey' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-herd-1979' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078355/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Herd (1979) 1979 · 129 min · Drama · Turkey Original title: Sürü ## Synopsis The Herd is a 1978 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by Zeki Ökten and written by Yılmaz Güney during Güney's second imprisonment. It features Tarık Akan as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in faraway Ankara. According to Güney's own account, the development of the script of Sürü, began in 1973 in prison in Selimya and finished it while in prison in Izmit. The conditions to write were at times rather difficult, in Izmit he wrote in a room he shared together with eighty other inmates. The film, which went on nationwide general release on 27 September 1978 , 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Yılmaz Güney](https://cinepixo.com/people/y-lmaz-guney), [Zeki Ökten](https://cinepixo.com/people/zeki-okten) - **Screenplay:** [Yılmaz Güney](https://cinepixo.com/people/y-lmaz-guney) - **Producer:** [Yılmaz Güney](https://cinepixo.com/people/y-lmaz-guney) - **Original Music Composer:** [Zülfü Livaneli](https://cinepixo.com/people/zulfu-livaneli) - **Director of Photography:** [İzzet Akay](https://cinepixo.com/people/izzet-akay) ## Cast - [Tuncel Kurtiz](https://cinepixo.com/people/tuncel-kurtiz) - [Tarık Akan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tar-k-akan) - [Güler Ökten](https://cinepixo.com/people/guler-okten) - [Yaman Okay](https://cinepixo.com/people/yaman-okay) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-herd-1979 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3794352); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.