Zeki ÖktenCast
Tarık Akan Melike Demirağ 
Tuncel Kurtiz
Credits
Written by: 
Yılmaz Güney
Plot
A family of Kurdish shepherds takes its sheep on a long train journey to Ankara to sell them. Along the way, the family is confronted with prejudice, illness and a rigid tribal code, and its fortunes collapse. Zeki Ökten directed the 1979 film from a script by Yılmaz Güney, known in English as The Herd, and it is a landmark of Turkish cinema.
Sinekatalog’s take
Zeki Ökten's landmark Turkish drama follows a Kurdish shepherd family taking its flock to Ankara and watching their fortunes collapse. Tarık Akan is superb, and the film's tragic humanity and social anger remain powerful.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.1 / 10 (5,793 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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