Dry Summer
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors’ crops. Alongside this tale of soul-devouring competition is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride. A benchmark of Turkish cinema, this is a visceral, innovatively shot and vibrantly acted depiction of the horrors of greed.
Restored in 2008 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, Ulvi Dogan, and Fatih Akim. Additional elements provided by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung. Restoration funded by Armani, Cariter, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.
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Dry Summer
Directed by Metin Erksan • 1964 • Turkey
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his n...
Extras
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Martin Scorsese on DRY SUMMER
The following introduction to DRY SUMMER by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, founder of the World Cinema Project, was produced in 2013.
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Metin Erksan and Fatih Akin on DRY SUMMER
This 2013 program features excerpts from a 2008 interview with the late director Metin Erksan and a new interview with filmmaker Fatih Akin (HEAD-ON), both of whom reflect on Erksan’s 1964 film.
