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Eventually Metin Erksan’s “Susuz Yaz” (The Dry Summer-1964), which revealed rural realities, became the first Turkish film to receive international recognition with a prize it won at the Berlin Film Festival. Beginning from the second half of the 1960s, the average number of films produced each year reached 150, even 200. However these films lacked a similar success in terms of quality and consequently an inflation of films was experienced. In addition, the adverse influence of the TV broadcasts which started by the end of 1968, led to a grave crisis in the cinema sector. |
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In 1967, Professor Sami Şekeroğlu established the Turkish Movie Archive to pass on movies to future generations, and he delivered this archive to the state one year later. |
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| New directors of the 1970s such as Yılmaz Güney, Süreyya Duru, Zeki Ökten, Şerif Gören, Fevzi Tuna, Ömer Kavur and Ali Özgentürk who were influenced by the cinema style of Lütfi Akad, tried to reflect various issues related to the social structure of the period in their films. The films produced by these directors breathed fresh life into the Turkish cinema. Following 1980s, the Turkish cinema established a distinguished reputation at international level. During this period, films dealing with psychological and social matters as well as women’s rights and problems came to the fore. |
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The 1990s constituted the most successful period of the Turkish cinema in terms of quality. The increase in the number of universities offering education in cinema-tography, the emergence of a perceptive group of directors and players, the decisions of the establishment aiming to support the art of the cinema and the funds provided to this end, the growing competition between the cinema and television, and the success attained at the international level were among the main factors which have improved the Turkish cinema from day to day. |
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 New Generation Turkish Cinema: Especially the younger generation started to view cinema as an influential form of art after 1985. The contributions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, particularly incentives for the cinema industry and the screenplay contests it organized, as well as the influence of successful production of short films in the universities prompted the emergence of an intellectual young generation cinema in Turkey.
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The young Turkish cinema, now acknowledged at the international level, is proceeding in self-confidence on a line questioning the past and the present by using psycho-social, cultural and historical elements. |
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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has made significant contributions to the production of several quality movies with the Supporting Law enacted in 2004 and helps to increase of movie production in Turkey. Movies supported by the Ministry such as “Dondurmam Gaymak (Ice Cream, I Scream), 5 Vakit (Five Times), Karagöz ve Hacivat Neden Öldürüldü? (Who Killed Shadows?), Babam ve Oğlum (My Father, My Son), Kader (Destiny), Takva (Takva: A Man’s |
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Fear of God), İklimler (Climates), Eve Dönüş (Back Home) won various awards at home and abroad.
Movie Theaters and Moviegoers: Turkish cinema started to appeal to the masses at the beginning of the 1950s. In this era, the cinema used to entertain people rather than stressing the problems of society. The
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A scene from the film
“Eve Dönüş” (Back Home) |
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