Synopsis
What is it that the two men are after in Dead Lands in an indefinite near future?
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, corporation's executives, scientists, and those multi-ethnic immigrants who have been admitted after passing genetic compatibility tests.
The immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. Professor Erol Erin (55), a seed genetics specialist, lives in a city protected from them by sophisticated armed forces and magnetic walls. For unknown reasons, the city's agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure.
In a meeting at the headquarters of the corporation which employs him, Erol learns of Cemil Akman (40), a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation. Erol sets out to fi...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : Dulac Productions, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Kaplan Film, Heimatfilm, The Chimney Pot, Galata Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Match Factory
- French distribution : Dulac Distribution
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriters : Semih Kaplanoglu, Leyla Ipekci
- Director of Photography : Giles Nuttgens
- Music Composer : Mustafa Biber
- Editors : Osman Bayraktaroglu, Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoglu
- Sound Recordist : Jörg Kidrowski
- Foreign producers : Johannes Rexin, Fredrik Zander, Bettina Brokemper, Semih Kaplanoglu, Nadir Operli
- Associate Producer : Rémi Burah
- Co-producers : Sophie Dulac, Michel Zana
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
- Sound editors : Cenker Kökten, Rainer Heesch, Tobias Fleig
- Production Designer : Naz Erayda
- Sound mixers : Cenker Kökten, Rainer Heesch, Tobias Fleig
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Science fiction , Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Turkey , Germany, France, Sweden
- Original French-language productions : No