Fightgirl Ayşe

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Movie
German title Fight girl
Original title Fighter
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish , Turkish , German
Publishing year 2007
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Natasha Arthy
script Natasha Arthy,
Nikolaj Arcel ,
Rasmus Heisterberg
production Johnny Andersen
music Frithjof Toksvig
camera Sebastian Winterø
cut Kasper Leick
occupation

Fightgirl is a Danish martial arts - coming-of-age film for children and young people by Natasha Arthy from 2007. The trilingual intercultural social drama (Danish, Turkish, German) was a great success in Denmark and was also criticized abroad welcomed.

In Germany the film had its theatrical release in January 2009.

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Aicha, a Turkish woman who lives in Denmark, loves Kung Fu and is so talented that the trainer recommends that her local self-defense group receive support in an elite Kung Fu school. This suggestion is met with incomprehension by Aicha's father, since she would also fight with men there, and he forbids her to continue practicing Kung Fu. Aicha should rather concentrate on school in order to later study medicine like her older brother Ali. But she secretly trained at the martial arts school, where she trained with the Dane Emil, who mainly helped her at the beginning. Yasemin, who is about to become engaged to Ali, happens to observe the two of them as they embrace as they say goodbye and mistakenly thinks Emil is Aicha's friend. She advises her to keep her hands off Emil.

A little later, Omar, a friend of Yasemin's brother Memet, turns up at the Kung Fu school. He immediately realizes that Aicha is Turkish and puts her under pressure by asking if her family knew about her training. When he finally refuses to fight Aicha's belt exam, the teacher throws him out of his team. Aicha wins the black belt, but Omar is full of hatred for Aicha, to whom he owes the expulsion in his opinion.

When Ali and Yasemin are engaged, he finally reveals Aicha's secret to Memet. She then confronts him in the kitchen and the two begin to fight. Eventually Omar manages to overwhelm Aicha. Aicha's father, who suddenly enters the room, believes that Omar is sexually harassing his daughter and loudly confronts him. Gradually, Ali, Memet and his father also get involved in the argument. Memet finally reveals Aicha to her father.

After this incident, Yasemin's parents break off their engagement with Ali. Aicha's parents are very disappointed with their daughter's behavior and Ali also blames her for breaking up with Yasemin. When her father rejects her, Aicha temporarily asks Sofie, a friend from the Kung Fu school, for accommodation and for a short time gets to know the life of an average Danish teenager. After a little party that Sofie organized because her mother is not there, she breaks into the school to spend the night there. There the teacher surprises her in the morning. Contrary to expectations, he is not angry about the broken window, but tells Aicha that she has qualified for the Kung Fu championship.

But Aicha wants to forego Kung Fu for the sake of her family, to concentrate more on school, because her teacher has also told her that she would only pass her Abitur with great difficulty, and she finally wants to return to her parents. She helps her father, who, still hoping that Ali and Yasemin will get engaged and that he will get a job as a taxi driver with Yasemin's father, is practicing for the taxi license. She received a call from Yasemin. Memet, who has learned that she is four months pregnant, wants revenge on Ali. Aicha and her father join in when Memet, Omar, and another friend beat up Ali. When the father tries to intervene, he too is knocked to the ground. Although he tries to hold back Aicha, she pounces on the attackers and manages to drive them away thanks to her kung fu skills.

The injured Ali takes refuge in his apartment in despair and the father reproaches Aicha for being useless. In this situation, Aicha confesses that she will probably not pass her Abitur. When her father freaks out, Aicha throws him at his head that she is not like Ali. She goes to her brother and advises him to apologize to Yasemin's parents. While Ali makes his way to Yasemin's family, Aicha gets the crumpled confirmation of qualification for the Kung Fu championship and asks her trainer to let her compete. She wins against all opponents - including Emil - and finally stands against Omar in the final, who just wins it.

On the winner's podium, Aicha and Omar make up and Aicha finally manages to stand by her feelings for Emil. Ali and Yasemin's family have also reconciled, and Aicha tells her father that she will do her high school diploma in a year, but that she has no plans to study medicine. The father finally reconciles with Aicha and her plans.

Emergence

According to the director, the first idea for the film arose from the fact that she had noticed in her environment - surprisingly for herself - how many young girls, especially those with a Muslim family background, are enthusiastic martial artists.

Reviews

The film received extremely positive reviews from numerous reviewers in Germany. Jörg Taszman from Deutschlandfunk, however, regretted that the film, which impresses with its good performance , will "unfortunately have a very difficult time reaching viewers (in Germany)" at Maxximum Film Und Kunst, which specializes in Turkish films . Michaela Schlagenwerth from the Berliner Zeitung sees the film as a "quite exciting and entertaining coming-of-age story (...) in a socially realistic milieu". Jana M. Jäger from Tagesspiegel concludes with “Worth seeing”. In particular, the young Turkish-Danish leading actress plays "authentic and full of energy". Several reviewers have to compare the fast-paced film with Lola Run . The Wiener Zeitung ruled: "Social realism, martial arts ballets and coming of age combine Natasha Arthy in an energetic symbiosis".

Awards

In addition to Semra Turan's nomination as “best leading actress” for the title role for the renowned Danish film award Bodil and an identical award at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya , the film received the “Children's and Youth Film Award” at the 50th Nordic Film Days in Lübeck in 2008 ".

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  1. ↑ List of links to reviews of "Fightgirl". filmz.de, accessed on November 7, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Taszman: Fightgirl Ayşe. Deutschlandradio Kultur, December 31, 2008, accessed on November 7, 2009 .
  3. ↑ a b Michaela Schlagenwerth: Ayse runs . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 31, 2008
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: The freedom of a fighter. DerWesten.de, December 31, 2008, accessed on July 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Fightgirl Ayse. Wiener Zeitung , December 31, 2008, accessed on November 25, 2013 .

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