Memed My Hawk is a 1984 British-Yugoslav drama film directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley and Michael Elphick. It is an adaptation of the 1955 Turkish novel Memed, My Hawk, the debut novel of Yaşar Kemal, later nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The film's cinematographer was Freddie Francis and featured music by Manos Hadjidakis.
Plot
In 1920s Turkey, Memed, a young peasant, is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor.