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- Memed_My_Hawk_(film) abstract "Memed My Hawk is a 1984 British-Yugoslav drama film directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley and Michael Elphick. It is an adaptation of the 1955 Turkish novel Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal. Producer Fuad Kavur. cinematographer Freddie Francis. Music Manos Hadjidakis. The production background to this film is a complex one, dating back to 1963. MEMED MY HAWK is the first novel written by the Turkish novelist Yashar Kemal. As soon as it was published, it also appeared in an English translation. Consequently, Yashar Kemall was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature. This was followed by Twentieth Century Fox, then led by the legendary Daryl Zannuck, acquiring the film rights of it. Immediately thereafter, Zannuck announced that Fox was going to turn MEMED into an epic motion picture. The cast included a young Terence Stamp, and Peter Ustinov. However, at this point, the events took a surprising turn. The Turkish government of the day requested the State Department to intervene so that Twentieth Century shelved the project. The reason behind this was the Turkish government's belief that MEMED MY HAWK was Communist propaganda. Consequently, Twentieth Century obliged, and the project was dropped. It was not until 1982 that the project was revived, due to Fuad Kavur, an opera stage director, who also happened to be working as an assistant to Peter Ustinov. Kavur asked Ustinov if he would be interested in playing the same part in MEMED, which he was supposed to do in the ill-fated production of Daryl Zannuck. When Ustinov agreed, Kavur got to work, and soon bought back the film rights from Twentieth Century Fox. Soon thereafter, Kavur was able to raise the finance for the movie in Turkey, and the preparations for filming started. Indeed, Kavur even visited the then prime minister of Turkey, Bulent Ecevit, to make sure that the permission to film in Turkey would not be withheld. Given, Mr Bulent Ecevit was a socialist, he assured Kavur that there would be no problems on this issue. However, as a pure formality, Ustinov's screenplay had to be submitted to the Turkish Film Censorship Committee. Then came another bombshell: The Committee refused to Grant permission for MEMED to be filmed inTurkey. Nevertheless, Bulent Ecevit, the socialist prime minister of Turkey reacted to this decision, by promptly dismissing the Censorship Committee. This became headline news in Turkey, as it obviously was a tug of war between Mr Ecevit and the military controlled Censorship Committee. However, this time fate took a hand in the events, as Mr Ecevit, who had a minority government, suddenly lost a vote of confidence in the parliament, and he and his cabinet fell. The incoming administration, led by Suletmen Demirell, which was a right wing party, upheld the decision of the (sacked) Censorship Committee, and the permission to film MEMED MY HAWK was once more denied. This meant Kavur, the producer of MEMED, had to move the production, in a hurry, to, then Yugoslavia. Finally, there was no government interference, and the film was made with no further political problems. MEMED MY HAWK had a Royal Gala Premiere, in the aid of UNICEF, in May1984, in London. The event was attended by HRH Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and some thirty ambassadors in London, except the Turkish ambassador. Soon thereafter, the Turkish government announced, the exhibition of MEMED MY HAWK in Turkey was banned. Indeed, to the present day (2012)' the exhibition in the movie theatres, and or broadcasting of it on television, or the sale of it as DVD, still remains banned.".
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- Memed_My_Hawk_(film) comment "Memed My Hawk is a 1984 British-Yugoslav drama film directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley and Michael Elphick. It is an adaptation of the 1955 Turkish novel Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal. Producer Fuad Kavur. cinematographer Freddie Francis. Music Manos Hadjidakis. The production background to this film is a complex one, dating back to 1963. MEMED MY HAWK is the first novel written by the Turkish novelist Yashar Kemal.".
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