Shirin's Hochzeit is another film from the midseventies, in black and white. A lot of it is in Turkish with German subtitles. In the seventies, the first foreigners to come and work in Germany, the Italians, Spanish and Greeks were more or less assimilated and didn't work in factories anymore. They had mostly started their own businesses. The first generation Turks had a lot more trouble with integration, the cultural and religious differences to Germany were much stronger for them.
In Shirin's Hochzeit it was the first time, a director tried to make the German audience see, where these foreign workers came from and what a cultural shock coming to Germany from rural Turkey would be. Also what the average reception for the Turkish workers was: The only German, who actually notices Shirin as a human being and shows some kindness, is that little pimp, scum that he is otherwise. As a lot of animosity and distrust is due to simple misunderstanding, the director hoped to help a bit in this respect with her film. But it was the kind of film that was shown in small cinemas in the university area, it was a bit of a fringe film for the politically correct intellecuals, and those people, who would have most profited, didn't go to see it.
I have to admit, that I developed a bit of an allergy against intellectual, politically correct films at that time, which were all the rage (Katharina Blum also belongs in that category). But this one is actually quite good and still interesting to watch. And it has Jürgen to make things more lively: a real cheap little pimp, one of the sleazier characters, that foreigners get confronted with in Germany!