Hejar - big man, little love
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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 |
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Director | Handan İpekçi |
script | Handan İpekçi |
production | Nikos Kanakis |
music |
Mazlum Çimen , Serdar Yalcin |
camera | Erdal Kahraman |
cut | Nikos Kanakis |
occupation | |
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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.
Awards
- 2001: Antalya Film Festival
- 2002: Cairo International Film Festival
- 2002: Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival
- 2003: International Istanbul Film Festival
Web links
- Hejar - Big Man, Small Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hejar - big man, little love. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016 .
- Hejar: press release. In: movienet. Archived from the original on September 8, 2009 ; accessed on September 18, 2018 .