On Fertile Lands is a 1980

1980 in film

- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....

 Turkish

Cinema of Turkey

Turkish cinema is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, expatriates across Europe, and in rare cases, the USA....

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

, directed by Erden Kıral

Erden Kıral

Erden Kıral is a Turkish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 12 films since 1978. His 1983 film A Season in Hakkari was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize...

 based on a story by Orhan Kemal

Orhan Kemal

Orhan Kemal is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that tells the stories of the poor in Turkey....

, featuring Tuncel Kurtiz

Tuncel Kurtiz

Tuncel Kurtiz is a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright and film director. Since 1964, he has acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions.- Biography :...

 as the head of a gtoup of day labourers looking for work in the Çukurova

Çukurova

Çukurova , historically known as Cilicia, is a geographic, economic and cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay...

 region. "The story," according to Rekin Teksoy

Rekin Teksoy

Rekin Teksoy is a Turkish lawyer, author and translator.- Career :Teksoy taught courses in Istanbul University’s Communications Faculty on Art of Cinema and Cinema and Literature Relations for over twenty years. He served on the executive board of Turkish Cinematech Association...

, "became a legend about village farm labourers, their merciless conditions, their hopes, their pain and their goldenhearts." It won Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the Strasbourg Film Festival and two Golden Oranges at the 18th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Awards

• Strasbourg Film Festival
  • Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: Erden Kıral (won)
• 18th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
  • Golden Orange for Best Director: Erden Kıral (won)
  • Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor: Yaman Okay (won)