On Fertile Lands

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On Fertile Lands
Directed by	Erden Kıral
Written by	Tuncel Kurtiz Erden Kıral Mahmut Tali Öngören Orhan Kemal
Produced by	Tuncel Kurtiz Erden Kıral
Starring	Tuncel Kurtiz Bülent Kayabaş Menderes Samancılar Nur Sürer Yaman Okay
Cinematography	Salih Dikişçi
Music by	Sarper Özsan Yavuz Top
Release date	1980 (1980)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish

On Fertile Lands (Turkish: Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde) is a 1980 Turkish drama film, directed by Erden Kıral based on a story by Orhan Kemal, featuring Tuncel Kurtiz as the head of a group of day labourers looking for work in the Çukurova region. "The story," according to Rekin Teksoy, "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.^[1][2]