The Land

Revolving around an old man who refuses to leave his otherwise evacuated village in Kurdish Turkey, "Ax (The Land)" is a twenty-seven-minute long short film about the forced deportations of Kurdish villages by the Turkish military.

Release Date

November 10, 1999

Runtime

28 min

Genres

Drama , War

Directed by

Kazım Öz, Zulfiye Dolu, Sami Mermer, Özkan Küçük

Screenplay by

Kazım Öz, Zulfiye Dolu, Özkan Küçük, Newroz Baz, Sami Mermer, Özcan Alper

Language

Kurdish

Budget

Revenue

Status

Released

Cast

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Muhlis Asan

Cerdevan

Videos

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AX (toprak) (the land) - By Kazim Öz

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Cast6 cast members

Hikmet Daragöz

Yildiz Gultekin

Murat Batgi

Muhlis Asan

Ali Koroglu

Hikmet Toktas

Crew9 crew members

Kazım Öz

Director, Editor, Screenplay

Özkan Küçük

Editor, Screenplay, Assistant Director, Art Direction

Ahmet Demir

Cinematography

Mustafa Biber

Music

Yasin Boyraz

Music

Zulfiye Dolu

Screenplay, Assistant Director

Newroz Baz

Screenplay

Sami Mermer

Screenplay, Assistant Director

Özcan Alper

Screenplay

Featurettes1 video

AX (toprak) (the land) - By Kazim Öz

Trailers1 video