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Handan Ipekçi

Big Man Little Love (Büyük adam küçük aşk)

Director Handan Ipekçi Music (original) Serdar Yalçin, Mazlum çimen Cast Sükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel, Ismail Hakkisen
Edition 2002
120' - 2001 - Drama - Format: 35mm - Dialogue: Turkish, Kurdish
Hejar is a 5-year-old Kurdish girl. She goes to live with relatives in Istanbul after her parents are killed in fighting between the Turkish army and Kurdish PKK rebels. The relatives are then killed in a police raid in Istanbul. Only Hejar escapes and is taken in by a neighbor, a 75-year-old retired Turkish judge. The girl cannot speak Turkish, and the authoritarian judge objects to the use of Kurdish in his house. He is a typical representative of the state who doesn’t tolerate any language other than Turkish. However, his views do slowly change.

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Credits

Directors

Handan Ipekçi

Music (original)

Serdar Yalçin, Mazlum çimen

Cast

Sükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel, Ismail Hakkisen

Scenario

Handan Ipekçi

Director of Photography

Erdal Kahraman

Editors

Nikos Kanakis

Producers

Handan Ipekçi

Sales agent

Menemsha Entertainment

More info

Dialogue

Turkish, Kurdish

Countries of production

Hungary, Greece, Turkey

Year

2001

Technical Specs

Format
35mm