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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

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

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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