Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise backdrop
Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise poster
Trailer
Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
6.5
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1h 10m
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2007
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Nuriye Kesbir (Sozdar) poster
Nuriye Kesbir (Sozdar)
herself
Victor Koppe poster
Victor Koppe
himself
Annegriet Wietsma poster
Annegriet Wietsma
herself
Abdullah Öcalan poster
Abdullah Öcalan
himself
Rıza Altun poster
Rıza Altun
himself
Ali Haydar Kaytan poster
Ali Haydar Kaytan
himself

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