Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

70 mins | Documentary | Nov. 24, 2007

As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.

Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise

70 mins | Documentary | Nov. 24, 2007

Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.
Producers
Original title Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
Directors Annegriet Wietsma
Writers

Cast

Victor Koppe

as himself

Annegriet Wietsma

as herself

Abdullah Öcalan

as himself

Rıza Altun

as himself

Ali Haydar Kaytan

as himself