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Rating: 7.5 stars

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black and white turkey Criterion sheep border horses smuggling

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Law of the Border (1966)

Directed by Lütfi Akad

Crime | Drama

Overview

In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.

Length 71 minutes

Actors

Tuncel Kurtiz | Aydemir Akbaş | Yılmaz Güney | Erol Taş | Ahmet Sert | Zafer Önen | Muharrem Gürses | Agah Hün | Sırrı Elitaş | Atilla Ergün | Kadir Savun | Sadettin Erbil | Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm | Rıza Tüzün | Pervin Par | Osman Alyanak | Ahmet Danyal Topatan | Hayri Esen | Enver Dönmez | Kemal Ergüvenç | Tuncer Necmioglu | Nusret Özkaya | İhsan Bayraktar | Necati Er | Erdoğan Esenboğa | Hikmet Olgun | Gonca Alyanak | Ferhat Gözoglu

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

From the World Cinema Project. As Scorsese describes it in his intro, this is very much a Turkish western. However, it’s not a western in the classic sense but it has good energy and emotion.

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