Big man, little love ( tour. Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk , Kurd. Hejar ) - Turkish film of 2001. The first film in Turkey, which uses the Kurdish language [1] . The international film was released under the title "Hejar" [2] .
| Big man, little love | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Producer | |
| Producer | Handan Ipekchi Nikos Kanakis Panos Papachadzis Denesh Cekeres |
| Author script | |
| In the main cast | Sukran Güngör Dylan Erchetin Fysun Demirel Yildyz Kenter Ismail Hakky Shen |
| Operator | Erdal Kahraman |
| Composer | Mazlum Chimen Serdar Yalchin |
| Duration | |
| A country | |
| Tongue | and |
| Year | 2001 |
| IMDb | |
Content
Story
A five-year-old Kurdish girl named Hedzhar is left in an apartment with distant relatives. Kurdish militants are also sheltering there. The apartment is being stormed by the police. Hedzhar manages to get into the next apartment, where an elderly man lives by the name of Rifat, who previously worked as a judge. Rifat is a staunch Turkish nationalist, however, he cannot hand over a five-year-old girl to the authorities. The problem of their relationship is complicated by the fact that Hedjar can only speak Kurdish, which Rifat does not know [3] .
Criticism
The making of the film was partially funded by the Turkish Ministry of Culture [2] .
At the film festival “ Golden Orange ”, the film won in the nominations “Best Film”, “Best Screenplay”, as well as 3 awards per game of actors [4] . Also “Big Man, Little Love” was shown at the Seoul Women's Film Festival [5] .
The film was nominated by Turkey for the Oscar , but did not enter the shortlist [4] .
In March 2002, the film was banned in Turkey for creating a negative image of the police (at the beginning of the film there is a scene in which a policeman kills an unarmed person [3] ) and “chauvinism” [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Turkish cinema reinvents itself
- ↑ 1 2 3 Director slams Turkish film ban
- ↑ 1 2 Land and freedom
- ↑ 1 2 Review: 'Hejar'
- ↑ Turkish Cinema Panorama: Living as a Woman in Islamic Culture (inaccessible link)