''Maden'' ( en, The Mine) is a 1978 Turkish film starring

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Tarık Akan Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. Early life Akan was born as Tarık Tahsin Üregül in Istanbul on 13 December 1949. ...

and

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, and directed by Yavuz Özkan. It is about a group of miners who decide to strike against a greedy mining company to demand better working conditions. The film is from the wave of

political film Political cinema, in the narrow sense of that portray current or historical events or social conditions through a partisan perspective in order to inform or to agitate the spectator. Political cinema exists in different forms, such as documenta ...

s in Turkey during the 1970s and actually represents one of the highest points of activism in the Turkish cinema as the Turkish

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was in its peak point too.

Plot

Cast

... İlyas *

... Nurettin *

... Halkacı Kadın *

Meral Orhonsay Meral is a common Turkish given name and Altai name. It is a variant of Maral. In Altai, Turkish and Mongolian "Maral" means "female deer". Meral has the same meaning as "Maral". It is also used as a surname. People Given name * Meral Akşener ( ...

... Nurettin's wife *

Halil Ergün Halil İbrahim Ergün (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish stage, movie and television series actor. He studied political science at Ankara University. Halil began his theater career in Bursa. Ergün debuted in cinema with director Yilmaz Gün ...

... Ömer *

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... Union President * Nurhan Nur ... Ayşe * Ahmet Turgutlu ... Company Owner * Aydın Haberdar ... unionist *

İhsan Yüce İhsan Yüce (23 January 1929 – 15 May 1991) was a Turkish people, Turkish actor and occasionally, scenarist and director. Biography İhsan Yüce studied at İzmir Atatürk High School and later at the İktisadi ve Ticari İlimler Akademisi. He ...

Awards and nominations

;

Golden Orange The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( tr, Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali), known for a few years from 2015 as Antalya International Film Festival, is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, and is the second most impor ...

awards * Best film * Best actor (

) * Best actress (

) * Best supporting actress (Meral Orhonsay)

Reception

External links

* 1978 films Films set in Turkey 1970s Turkish-language films Best Picture Golden Orange Award winners 1970s thriller drama films Films about the labor movement Turkish political films 1970s political thriller films 1970s disaster films Political thriller films 1970s political drama films 1978 drama films {{Turkey-film-stub