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LITTLE BRIDE
LITTLE BRIDE
Poland 2010, documentary, 14’
director: Lesław Dobrucki
DoP: Piotr Rosołowski
filmediting: Jakub Kossak, Robert Polewski
sound: Zofia Gołębiowska
production: Katarzyna Ślesicka, Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Our heroine stopped praying long ago. As a thirteen year-old girl she was brought from her native Turkey to Germany to marry one of her cousins. This is how her childhood ended – she became the property of a husband who tortures and degrades her. She finally decides to flee, but must continuously be in hiding. Condemned by both families, she has no chance at a normal life, neither as a wife nor a divorcee. The film is not a typical intervention reportage, but a poetic collage comprising of documentary material, family photographs and children’s drawings. This individual life story reflectsthestoriesof many other girls and women subjected to a patriarchal law still enforced by tacit consent in the multicultural societies of Western Europe.
Lesław Dobrucki was born in 1969. He graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He participated in the project ‘New Urban Legends’ (2007). In that same year he co-produced the documentary film The Crew. His documentary study The Booth of Fortune (2008) was awarded at the Film Festival “Young and Film” in Koszalin.
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