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The Land
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The Land 1999 Directed by Kazım Öz Ax

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.

Country Turkey
Production Country Turkey
Language Kurdish
Spoken Languages Kurdish , Turkish
Gneres Drama , War
Release Date 10 November 1999
28 mins
Cast
Hikmet Daragöz
Hikmet Daragöz Zelo
Yildiz Gultekin
Yildiz Gultekin Zele's Wife
Murat Batgi
Murat Batgi Cafer
Muhlis Asan
Muhlis Asan Cerdevan
Ali Koroglu
Ali Koroglu Cerdevan
Hikmet Toktas
Hikmet Toktas Cerdevan
Crew
Director
Kazım Öz
Kazım Öz
Writers
Kazım Öz
Kazım Öz
Zulfiye Dolu
Zulfiye Dolu
Özkan Küçük
Özkan Küçük
Newroz Baz
Newroz Baz
Sami Mermer
Sami Mermer
Özcan Alper
Özcan Alper
Editors
Kazım Öz
Kazım Öz
Özkan Küçük
Özkan Küçük
Art Direction
Özkan Küçük
Özkan Küçük
Music
Mustafa Biber
Mustafa Biber
Yasin Boyraz
Yasin Boyraz
Assistant Directors
Zulfiye Dolu
Zulfiye Dolu
Sami Mermer
Sami Mermer
Özkan Küçük
Özkan Küçük