Set in what was then the present day. There's a village on the Turkish border. The people there survive by herding sheep and smuggling. Both enterprises are threatened when the government wants to open a school. It means taking kids away from their work and having a teacher living there and becoming hip to their criminal activities.
People ride horses and living conditions are primitive, but there's a military officer who rides around in a Jeep and there's a rich guy who rides around in the back of a 1960's Mercury. Everyone else is dirt poor. Their revolvers, rifles and semi-automatic shotguns are all they have that are of any value.
Mine fields separate them from whatever country is on the other side. One guy has a big Army surplus metal detector.
It seemed like a realistic movie, so the running gun fights came as a surprise.
Only one print of the film survived the 1980 military coup in Turkey. It was badly scratched, full of splices and had deteriorated, but they restored it as best they could. All other copies were destroyed.
Black and white, 77 minutes. Available on the Criterion Channel.
Mine fields separate them from whatever country is on the other side. One guy has a big Army surplus metal detector.
It seemed like a realistic movie, so the running gun fights came as a surprise.
Only one print of the film survived the 1980 military coup in Turkey. It was badly scratched, full of splices and had deteriorated, but they restored it as best they could. All other copies were destroyed.
Black and white, 77 minutes. Available on the Criterion Channel.
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