Shirin's wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shirin's wedding |
| Country of production | FRG |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| script | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| production | Volker Canaris |
| music | Zülfü Livaneli |
| camera | Thomas Mauch |
| cut | Margot Löhlein |
| occupation | |
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Shirin's wedding is one of the first German feature films told from a Turkish perspective. The controversial drama, produced for television in 1975, comes from filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms . Sanders-Brahms stated in 1980 that the writer Aras Ören , who appeared on the staff as an actor, had a large part in the making of the film.
action
The film depicts the life of the young Turkish girl Shirin portrayed by Ayten Erten . It was already promised to Mahmut as a child. One day, her father throws a stone at the manager they work for and is arrested.
The steward asked her uncles for her hand and got her for money. However, Shirin does not love him and longs for Mahmut, who lives and works in Cologne . She flees to Germany to look for him.
At first she was employed as a factory worker and met the Greek Maria, who became her friend. When she was hit by layoffs, she experienced the difficult " guest workers " life in " a society hostile to them " (Lexikon der Internationale Films, 1995 edition). Shirin sends money home regularly.
She works as a cleaning lady and also loses this job after being raped. While looking for work, she comes across a pimp who sells her to guest worker accommodation. There she meets the long-sought fiancé Mahmud, but he does not recognize her at night.
Eventually her pimp is stabbed to death by pals, which she watches. When she wants to walk away from them shortly afterwards, longing for home, she is shot from behind.
criticism
“In the first part an atmospherically coherent, later a bit too thick description of the hard life of guest workers in a society hostile to them. A film that inspires discussion. "
Reactions
The first broadcast of the feature film Shirin's Wedding on WDR television triggered massive protests by right-wing extremist circles in Turkey and also led to a small protest rally by Turkish nationalists in front of the WDR radio station in Cologne. Ayten Erten, the actress who played Shirin, was seriously threatened and her acting career was almost over after the film. Little is known about them since the 1980s.
Helma Sanders-Brahms received the television film award of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 1976.
More controversial TV films about Turks in Germany
- Anger (TV Movie) (2006)
- To Whom Honor Is Due (2007)
literature
- Gail Elizabeth Wise: Ali in Wonderland. German representations of foreign workers. Berkeley, Calif., Univ. of California, Diss., 1995.
- Jochen Neubauer: Turkish Germans, Kanaksters and Germans. Identity and perception of others in film and literature: Fatih Akin, Thomas Arslan, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Zafer Senocak and Feridun Zaimoglu. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2011. ISBN 978-3-8260-4630-8
Web links
- Shirin's wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Shirin's wedding in the Lexicon of International Films