Plot Summary

In 1970, Melek Tez came to Berlin as a young worker from Turkey. A confident woman, she first countered racist resentments and remarks with irony and wit. Jokingly, she even referred to herself as a "Kümmeltürkin", a derogatory German term for Turkish migrants. Yet after fourteen humiliating years, her fighting spirit has given way to resignation: Melek Tez is returning to Turkey. Blending documentary, interviews and re-enacted scenes, director Jeanine Meerapfel chronicles Melek Tez' life experience.

Movie Details

Original Title
Die Kümmeltürkin geht
Status
released
Original Language
de

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Cast

Melek Tez as Self

Melek Tez

Self

Gülcin Tez as Self

Gülcin Tez

Self

Jeanine Meerapfel as Self (voice)

Jeanine Meerapfel

Self (voice)

Production Companies

Journal-Film Klaus Volkenborn KG