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with

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during Güney's second imprisonment, featuring

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as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in faraway

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. According to his 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 , was screened in competition at the

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, where it won Interfilm and OCIC Awards, the

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, where it won

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and Special Mention, was scheduled to compete in the cancelled

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, 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.

Awards

** Belated Golden Orange for Best Film (won) ** Belated Golden Orange for Best Director:

(won, also for '' The Enemy'') ** Belated Golden Orange for Best Music: Zülfü Livaneli (won) ** Belated Golden Orange for Best Actress:

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(won, shared with Güngör Bayrak for ''The Enemy'') ** Belated Golden Orange for Best Actor:

(won, also for '' The Sacrifice'', shared with Aytaç Arman for ''The Enemy'') ** Belated Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor:

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(won) *

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: Grand Prix (won)

References

External links

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