Hejar - big man, little love

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Movie
German title Hejar - big man, little love
Original title Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk
Country of production Turkey
original language Turkish
Publishing year 2001
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Handan İpekçi
script Handan İpekçi
production Nikos Kanakis
music Mazlum Çimen ,
Serdar Yalcin
camera Erdal Kahraman
cut Nikos Kanakis
occupation

Hejar - Big Man, Little Love (Original title: Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk ) is a Turkish film from 2001 . The director is Handan İpekçi , who also wrote the script. The cinema release in Germany was on October 2, 2002.

action

Hejar, a five-year-old Kurdish girl, lost her parents in a police operation in eastern Turkey. The village elder (Evdo) takes them to Istanbul , where their paths cross with those of the retired judge Rifat Bey. Hejar has to save himself from the police a second time when she finds refuge at Rifat of all places. As a conservative civil servant, he only speaks Turkish , she only speaks Kurdish . Little by little, Hejar, the little girl with the sad face and the flowery curses, manages to dissuade the old man from his radical attitude. Rifat learns Kurdish and Hejar speaks the first Turkish words. And both can no longer live without the other.

Despite all the ties, it takes some time before Rifat even gets to know Hejar's name, as he initially forbids his Kurdish housekeeper Sakine (Kurdish name Rojbîn) to speak Kurdish with Hejar. Only when he no longer knows what to do with the child, who keeps calling for his mother, does he call her and ask for her help (this is where Rifat begins to learn Kurdish).

He has her parents searched through office and finds out that she no longer has a family. Knowing this, he considers adopting her. Evdo, who heard about the murder of Hejar's relatives on the radio, has meanwhile worried to look for Hejar. And he finds her when he meets her and Rifat in the hallway, who have just returned from town. Now Hejar has to decide for herself where she wants to live.

background

  • The director Handan İpekçi was threatened with a prison sentence of up to 6 months in 2003.

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