Trees Die Standing (Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür) (translated)

Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür (Trees Die Standing) is the 2000 re-shoot of a 1964 film of the same title, made when a project returned old Turkish films of the black-and-white era to the big screen. The drama was produced under the Plato Film banner and shot in color on 16 mm.

The cast is led by Eşref Kolçak, Emre Altuğ, Sevinç Erbulak and Çolpan İlhan. Kolçak plays Asım, Altuğ plays İzzet and Erbulak plays Ayşe, while Burhan İnce appears as the Kahya. Neşe Arda, Mümtaz Alpaslan, Seyfettin Karadayı, Hasan Yıldız and Yaşar Kutbay complete the cast. Several performers were dubbed by other voice actors: Hayri Küçükdeniz voiced Kolçak, Devrim Parscan voiced Karadayı and Ercüment Balakoğlu voiced Alpaslan.

Atilla Engin wrote the screenplay, Sinan Çetin produced and Kamil Çetin served as cinematographer. Murat Bör edited and Dilşat Zülkadiroğlu handled art direction. The music is credited to Emre Altuğ, Erkin Aslan and Cem Sancak, the last of whom also recorded and mixed the sound.