Born in Çanakkale in 1929 and dying in Istanbul in 2012, Metin Erksan was one of the leading directors of Turkish cinema of the 1960s. Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz, 1963), a harsh story of a farmer who dams a spring so that only his own land is watered, won the Golden Bear at Berlin in 1964, the first Turkish film to win a major European prize. Time to Love (Sevmek Zamanı, 1965) is a fantasy of a painter in love with the portrait of a woman. He was also a film critic and a teacher.
Filmography
- Gecelerin Ötesi (1960)
- Susuz Yaz (1963)
- Sevmek Zamanı (1965)
- Kuyu (1968)
- Kızgın Toprak (1973)