âEmmett â Tief in meinem Herzenâ (âEmmett â Deep in My Heartâ) is a film with theatrical elements, telling the story of the 14-year-old Black teenager Emmett Till, who became the victim of a racist murder in Mississippi, USA, in 1955. This murder is considered the spark for the civil rights movement in the USA as well as a global, public-media confrontation with racism. Emmettâs story is not an exclusively Black or American story. Emmett had to die because he (allegedly) whistled after a White woman, while his killers were acquitted by an all-male, all-White jury, only to openly admit to the murder in an interview a short time later. âCases like Emmett's are repeated in Germany and around the world. They affect us all â they are the stories of each and every one of us. Almost 70 years after Emmett Tillâs murder, we live in a world that is still shaped by structural racism.
