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Original Name: Nur eine Frau
English Name: A Regular Woman
Year: 2019
Run Time: 92'
Language: German
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Germany
Director: Sherry Hormann
Producer: Sandra Maischberger
Cast: Almila Bagriacik, Rauand Taleb, Meral Perin, Mürtüz Yolcu, Armin Wahedi, Aram Arami
Screenplay: Florian Öller
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
Editor: Bettina Böhler
Sound Designer: Rainer Gerlach, Thomas Neumann
Music Composer: Fabien Römer
Costume Designer: Jessica Specker
Production Designer: Uli Friedrichs
Production Company: Vincent TV
World Sales: The Match Factory
World Sales Phone: +49221 539 7090
World Sales Email: info@matchfactory.de
Sherry Hormann was born on April 20, 1960 in Kingston, New York, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Desert Flower (2009), Leise Schatten (1992) and Guys and Balls (2004). The German-American writer and director won a number of awards. Her best-known film is Desert Flower, for which she researched female genital mutilation in Africa, then wrote the screenplay and directed the film based on Waris Dirie’s bestseller.
The film portrays the fate of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Turkish descent, and her struggle for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers refuse to accept her lifestyle; insults and threats continue to escalate. Finally, the young woman reports her oldest brother to the police. She no longer feels safe at home, so she takes her child and moves in with a female friend. At the same time, the family is trying to find a wife for her brother. But then Aynur is shot to death by her brother Nuri on a busy street in Berlin. Without suspecting anything, she accompanies him to the bus stop down the road, while her five-year-old son Can is asleep in her apartment only a few hundred miles away. How could this happen, what led to this deed?
The film is based on the story of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, whose murder caused an outcry in 2005 and the witness is still in the witness protection program to this day.
