Head-On
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7.5With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Released: 2004-03-11122 minDir: Fatih AkinDrama, Romance
Cast
- Sibel Kekilli as Sibel Güner
- Birol Ünel as Cahit Tomruk
- Güven Kıraç as Seref
- Meltem Cumbul as Selma
- Adam Bousdoukos as Barmann
- Mehmet Kurtuluş as Barmann Istanbul
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Fatih Akın
- Written by
- Fatih Akın
- Produced by
- Stefan Schubert, Ralph Schwingel, Andreas Schreitmüller, Mehmet Kurtuluş , Fatih Akın
- Starring
- Birol Ünel , Sibel Kekilli , Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul
- Cinematography
- Rainer Klausmann
- Edited by
- Andrew Bird
- Music by
- Alexander Hacke , Mona Mur , Maceo Parker , Daniel Puente Encina ("Niños Con Bombas" and "Polvorosa")
- Production companies
- Bavaria Film International , Wüste Filmproduktion, Corazón International, NDR , Arte
- Distributed by
- Timebandits Films (Germany), R Film (Turkey)
- Release dates
- 12 February 2004 ( 2004-02-12 ) ( Berlin ) 11 March 2004 ( 2004-03-11 ) (Germany) 19 March 2004 ( 2004-03-19 ) (Turkey)
- Running time
- 121 minutes
- Countries
Key dates
- Published
- 2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 17th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Turkey
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- substance abuse
- Director
- Fatih Akin
- Screenwriter
- Fatih Akin
- Composer
- Alexander Hacke
- Production company
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Article
Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand, literally Against the Wall; Turkish: Duvara Karşı) is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın. It stars Birol Ünel as a Turkish-born, alcoholic German widower who enters into a marriage of convenience with a young woman of Turkish descent. She is desperate to escape her restrictive and abusive male relatives.
The film won the Golden Bear at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival.
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2004 English-language films2004 films2004 German films2004 German-language films2004 independent films2004 multilingual films2004 romantic drama films2004 Turkish-language filmsEnglish-language German filmsEnglish-language independent filmsEnglish-language romantic drama filmsEnglish-language Turkish films