LAW OF THE WOLVES
                                                                                                  
law of the wolves

Original Title: KURT KANUNU

Based on a novel by Kemal Tahir

Runtime: 122 mins

Language: Turkish

Year: 1992
Color 35mm
Turkey
Resume                                                                                                                                                    
June the 10th, 1926. Istanbul, Galata Port.
      The ship “Gülcemal” is about to sail. On board, two ex-Ittihat politicians, Ziya Hursit and Laz Ismail are plotting to assassinate Mustafa Kemal (the president of the young Turkish Republic) in Izmir. An ex-gunman Kerim, partially involved in this plot, is spying on them from a shipping agency. A woman rushes away, just before the ship sets sail. Kerim recognizes her as Ismail’s mistress Naciye (Aslı Altan), follows and forcibly enters her house and threatens to inform the police saying that she smuggled the guns and the bomb on board the ship. They eventually end up in bed together. Three days later, Rasim, another co-conspirator, finds them to report that Kemal (a political leader in opposition to Mustafa Kemal) must be warned because he never approved of such methods, but nevertheless has no other choice but to join Kerim in hiding in Semra’s (Kerim’s mistress) mansion.
Crew                                                                                                                                                          
Co-production Company
Director
Producers

Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Production Designer
Film Editor
Composer		 Muhteşem Film
Ersin Pertan
Annie Geelmuyden-Pertan
Irfan Tözüm
Ersin Pertan
Aytekin Çakmakçı
Annie Geelmuyden-Pertan
Ayhan Ergürsel
Arif Erkin
Cast                                                                                                                                                           
Kemal
Ballı Naciye
Emin's sister
Semra
Kerim
Emin		 Mehmet Akan
Aslı Altan
Hümeyra
Şahika Tekand
Berhan Şimşek
Yılmaz Zafer
The novel                                                                                                                                                 
    L AW OF THE WOLVES is written by Kemal Tahir, whose novels have had a strong influence on Turkish intellectuals.  In 1937, Tahir was accused of “lending a book to a friend”; which was viewed by the military court as leftist propaganda and he was sentenced to 17 years in jail. He was a good friend of the poet Nazim Hikmet.
L AW OF THE WOLVES tells how an assassination attempt on Mustafa Kemal, was used as an excuse to eliminate the opposition politicians, some influential army generals and ex-Ittihat party members, so the government could rule a “thorn-less rose garden”.
Awards                                                                                                                                                      
Yasemin Alkaya BEST SUPORTING ACTRESS Ankara International
Film Festival 1992
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