![]() ![]() Six years later, her father - whom she believed lost - takes her away to live with his new family. It is during her time in the orphanage that Awet begins to first perceive the injustice all around her, and gradually learns to stand up for her beliefs. Awet survives and is taken to a Catholic orphanage ran by Italian and Eritrean nuns. ![]() Left alone and needy, Awet's mother attempts to kill her, locking it away in a suitcase. Asmara is under Ethiopian occupation, and Awet's father takes to the woods with the Eritrean freedom fighters. The film was released on September 25 (Germany) and October 10 (United Kingdom, Italy, Eritrea).Īwet (Letekidan Micael) is born the daughter of an Eritrean man and an Ethiopian woman - a bad combination in 1974, in the middle of a long liberation war between the two peoples. The film was inspired by the best selling book of German singer Senait Ghebrehiwet Mehari of the same name. Heart of Fire (also known by its original German name, Feuerherz) is a 2009 German docudrama directed by Luigi Falorni. ![]()
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