Playing the role of a Muslim student in her latest film, a young German actress has revealed that she felt a strange serenity when she put on hijab for the first time, despite of strange looks from everyone around her.
"When I put on my headscarf and saw only my pure face, I had initially a strange feeling," Ava Celik said.
"It may have been due to the preparation for the role, because when I wore the costume, I went upright at once and had an unusual serenity."
Celik, a 25-year-old young German actress born in Berlin, is playing the role of Sevda, a young Muslim high school student in Berlin who dons a hijab in the film produced by German official TV channel, ZDF.
She plays an intelligent Muslim who has a liberal, non-religious parents. This girl opted voluntarily for life as a devout follower of Islam.
The movie tackles integration in the German community, portraying Muslim women as not suppressed.
It is worth mentioning that Germany has Europe's second-largest Muslim population after France.