Little Bride
Przyrzeczona, Poland, 2010, 14 min, Digi Beta, Human Rights, Music, Social Issues
There is about 2.5 million Turkish minority members in Germany. Every year there is at least a dozen of Turkish women beaten to death by their husbands or other family members. The actual scale of those crimes in Germany, where law and order are so highly valued, is unknown — according to the official data, in Turkey there are committed more than 300 so-called honor killings annually and 40% of wives are violence victims. A Turkish girl was sent to Germany and forced to marry when she was 13 years old. Soon after that, her hell has begun; she was beaten and abused in different ways. After several years she managed to run away; she has been hiding until now – only because of that she is able to tell us her life story.
Director:
Leszek Dobrucki
Director of photography:
Piotr Rosolowski
Editor:
Robert Polewski, Jakub Kossak, Bartek Pietras
Producer:
Katarzyna Ślesicka
Executive producer:
Anna Wydra
Sound:
Zofia Golebiowska
Screenplay:
Leslaw Dobrucki
World Sales:
Katarzyna Wilk
Languages:
Polish
Subtitles:
English
Wajda School
ul. Chelmska 21 bud. 24
00-724 Warsaw, Poland
Krakow Film Foundation
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow, Poland
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45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
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Dokufest, Kosovo, 2010
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010, UK
13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2011, Greece