Memed, My Hawk (film)

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Memed, My Hawk is a 1984 British-Yugoslav drama film directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley and Michael Elphick. The film's cinematographer was Freddie Francis and featured music by Manos Hadjidakis. {{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/280006 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708142448/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/280006 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-08 |title=Memed My Hawk (1984) | BFI |website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-06-30}} It is an adaptation of the 1955 Turkish novel Memed, My Hawk, the debut novel of Yaşar Kemal, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Memed, My Hawk was produced in Yugoslavia following the Turkish government's refusal of permission to film.{{cite journal |title=Memed My Hawk |journal=Index on Censorship |date=Oct 1984 |volume=13 |issue=5 |pages=8 |doi=10.1177/030642208401300501 |doi-access=free }}