“Only a woman” is from the German-Turkish woman, Hatun Aynur Sürücü, who fell in Berlin in 2005 a so-called “honour killing” victim. The culprit was her own brother. In the Film, the Murdered and tells her story.
“I was a honor murder” and “This bundle is under this shroud, I am” in sentences like these, the Film tells “Only a woman” with unsparing directness the story of Hatun Aynur Sürücü was shot in 2005 in Berlin by one of their brothers on the open road.
Who is Hatun Aynur Sürücü?
Aynur is on 17. January 1982 born in Berlin, is the daughter of Kurdish parents of the Sunni faith. They come from the Turkish province of Erzurum in East Anatolia. The girl is one of nine children. She grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg, goes to high school. With 16 years, her family takes her from school and married with a Cousin in Turkey. The man is violent. Aynur returns pregnant to Berlin. To lives the start they are still your family, but the desire to determine one’s own life, is getting bigger and bigger.
Despite the resistance of her family, she pulls her son into a residential home for single women, then in an apartment. You are looking for psycho-therapeutic help to get through high school, puts her head scarf and begins an apprenticeship as an electrical installat urine. All their own.
With 23 years, she is on the verge of their final exam. After that, you want to move to Freiburg and your diploma. It doesn’t happen. On 7. In February 2005 she was murdered by one of your brothers with three shots to the head, at a bus stop in Berlin-Tempelhof. This fact triggers a debate on forced marriages and values of Muslim families in Germany.
Hatun Aynur Sürücü was 23 years old when she was shot by her brother
“It’s about self-determination”
Fourteen years after the murder, the Director Sherry Hormann brings the story of Hatun Aynur Sürücü to the cinema. “The idea came from, because I find the story so moving,” explains Hormann at the film premiere at the cinema International in Berlin. “After so many years, you must be told, because our society is changing so much because we are moving more and more in fences.”
To speak at the beginning of the film, the characters communicate with each other in Turkish. “Oh, you don’t understand us”, throws the protagonist and switch to German. The Film is thus primarily a German-speaking audience? “The topic is of concern to all of us,” says Hormann. “It’s about self-determination. It comes to the self-determination of women. It comes to our own self-determination as a people.”
“Aynur led a struggle that many women lead”
The Film was produced by the well-known journalist and TV-presenter Sandra Maischberger. “About this case, especially documentary films. The especially, of course, the men come to call life. So, the murderer, the brothers,” so Maischberger. With the movie they wanted to give Aynur a voice. “Because you led a struggle that is still so present and the many women. Perhaps not with the dramatic end, but against male domination and for self-determination.” Best to you, says maischberger would be, if all the people who live in Germany perceive themselves as a community, for each other, responsibility and the rules of the other would respect it.
“Only a woman” tells the story of a German-Turkish woman who wants to lead a self-determined life
The Film incorporates footage and photographs of the real Aynur and these documentary-style. Aynurs Hip-Hop music creates a snapshot of the sick, the overburdened father in the mosque. The Film outlines how heartless all of the members of the family, also sisters – the vivacious Aynur, don’t want to break with your family. He moves away from clichés such as “Western free world against fanatical Muslim world”, but it is also an indictment of the justice system, which condemns only the youngest brother, who admits the fact and to reckon with the lowest penalty.
Aynur give a voice
“Only a woman” is not trying to fathom the psychological or social Situation of the family, but alone Aynur and her voice in the center. The more effective the discrepancy between the emotionless voice of the dead, and the story it tells.
To tell a “complete from the point of view of a dead, was really a challenge,” says the actress Almila Bagriacik. “Because if someone dies, have quite a lot of people have an opinion about how he was and why he died. But the Person himself can not say anything more.” In addition, it was particularly difficult, when you Play the own emotions not to allow.
Premiere of “Only a woman” at 6. May 2019 in Berlin
Again and again, people with a migration to complain about history, the media in Germany is swelling, which performs single cases of so-called “honour killings”, while similar violent acts in families without migration would history as a “family tragedy” little attention. “The terms,” says the actress Idil Üner, which is also seen in the Film. “I don’t want anything against the other – or depreciate. For me both are equally bad. So something must not happen, neither jealousy nor from the comic to the value of life and ideas. It should not happen, but it happens, unfortunately.”