The 1990 Best Foreign Film Oscar went to this saga of a Kurdish farmer (Necmettin Cobanoglu) and his family trying to emigrate from Turkey to Switzerland. Nur Surer. Mehmet Ali: Emin Sivas. Adana: Erdinc Akbas. Turkmen: Yaman Okay. Haci Baba: Yasar Guner. Selcuk: Huseyin Mete. Ilyas: Yaman Tarcan. Dircted and coauthored by Xavier Koller.