Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz)

Dry Summer is a 1963 black-and-white Turkish drama directed by Metin Erksan, adapted from Necati Cumalı's 1962 short story of the same name. Erksan co-wrote the screenplay with Kemal İnci and İsmet Soydan, while lead actor Ulvi Doğan served as producer. Filming took place over nine months in Bademler, the village in İzmir's Urla district where the story is set, with an original score by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis.

The film follows Osman (Erol Taş), a tobacco farmer who dams the water on his land and refuses to share it with his neighbors. When his brother Hasan (Ulvi Doğan) takes the blame for a murder and is imprisoned, Osman turns his desire toward Hasan's wife Bahar (Hülya Koçyiğit). Banned by censors at home, the film premiered at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear and became the first Turkish film to receive a major international award. Marking Koçyiğit's screen debut, it was later restored with support from Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation and re-released.