About Dry Grasses Movie Details:
| Original Title | Kuru Otlar Üstüne |
| Countries | Turkey, France, Germany |
| Language | Turkish |
| Genre | Drama |
| Release Dates | 19 May 2023 (Cannes) 12 July 2023 (France) 29 September 2023 (Turkey) |
| Running Time | 3hr 17min |
| Cast | Deniz Celiloğlu Merve Dizdar |
| Directed by | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Written by | Nuri Bilge Ceylan Ebru Ceylan Akın Aksu |
| Produced by | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Cinematography by | Kürşat Üresin Cevahir Şahin |
| Edited by | Nuri Bilge Ceylan Oğuz Atabaş |
| Music by | Philip Timofeyev |
| Production Companies | NBC Film Memento Production Komplizen Film |
| Distributor | Memento Distribution (France) |
| Budget | est. €3,500,000 |
| Box Office Collection | $2,215,054 |
About Dry Grasses Movie Cast and Characters:
- Deniz Celiloğlu as Samet
- Merve Dizdar as Nuray
- Musab Ekici as Kenan
- Ece Bağcı as Sevim
- Erdem Şenocak as Tolga
- Yüksel Aksu as Vahit
- Münir Can Cindoruk as Feyyaz
- Onur Berk Arslanoğlu as Bekir
- Yıldırım Gücük as Director of Education
- Cengiz Bozkurt as Nail
Storyline:
The film follows a teacher working in rural eastern Anatolia with hopes of moving to Istanbul when he is accused of abusing a student.
About About Dry Grasses Movie:
- The film premiered in the main competition section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Merve Dizdar won the Best Actress award.
- It is director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ninth feature-length film and his tenth overall.
- The script took around two years to complete.
- Filming began in March 2021 in Erzurum; nature shots were also filmed in Adıyaman.
- The film received funding of €470,000 from the European Council’s Eurimages fund, in addition to ₺2 million from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
- The story is based on co-writer and art teacher Akin Aksu’s diary which he kept during his 3-year-long compulsory service in Anatolia.
- The film was released in France by Memento Distribution on 12 July 2023 under the title Les herbes sèches.
