Rent Dry Summer (1964)
4.0 of 5 from 62 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
- During a particularly dry rural Turkish summer, a group of local workers enters into a dispute with a landowner when he decides the construction of new irrigation infrastructure must first and foremost service his own property. Wholly rapacious, the landowner foments a private war with his own kin after the brother takes a bewitching young wife. The battle between the factions plays out in stunning set-pieces: a pursuit with pistols amidst grass-stalks and dam-water before the setting sun evokes elements...
- Actors:
- Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan, Alaettin Altiok, Hakki Haktan, Zeki Tüney, Yavuz Yalinkiliç
- Directors:
- Metin Erksan
- Producers:
- Ulvi Dogan, William Shelton
- Voiced By:
- Sami Ayanoglu, Niyazi Er, Sadettin Erbil, Alev Koral, Ercan Yazgan
- Writers:
- Necati Cumali, Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci, Ismet Soydan
- Aka:
- Susuz Yaz
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Turkey
- Awards:
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- Release Date:
- 25/11/2013
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- Turkish LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Exclusive new video introduction to the film by Martin Scorsese
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Reviews (1) of Dry Summer
Dammed If You Do - Dry Summer review by griggs
I expected worthy black-and-white social realism and got something thornier and far more tightly wound than I bargained for.
Dry Summer earns its title fair and square — the village is parched, the water rights are contested, and the morals aren't looking too healthy either. Once the dam goes up, the tension is real, even if I could usually see the next beat coming a mile off. It plays like a countdown rather than a mystery, and I mean that as a compliment.
The photography is the real star — those wide shots of cracked earth and dammed stream look painterly enough to frame. Osman is magnetic and faintly unhinged, though a couple of the supporting turns feel pitched for a theatre balcony rather than a camera.
Fans of Jean de Florette will clock the DNA — water, greed, land, a slow unravelling — and for my money this one got there first, and meaner.
It's predictable almost to a fault, but I got under its spell anyway.
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