Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
directed by: Fatih Akin
screenplay: Fatih Akin
cast: Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli
genre: drama/romance
country: Germany / Turkey
year: 2004
runtime: 123`
language: German / Turkish / English 
Description

Cahit is a German Turk at his late 30's. He has given up with his life after his beloved wife's death, and he's living a miserable life right in the core of cocaine and excessive drinking. One night, he semi-intentionally crashes into a wall, and barely survives. At the hospital he's taken to, he meets a girl, Sibel, another German Turk who's tried to commit suicide. She's sick and tired of her family's ultra-traditional issues, and asks Cahit to carry out a white marriage with her out of the blue, so that she can become a married woman and get rid of her family's revolting in this plan. As Sibel tells him straightaway that she's interested in absolute freedom involving other men and he agrees, they live as roommates with separate private lives for a while. Then things take a different turn, and they're no longer two indifferent roommates. But their love story won't be anywhere as simple as any other...

Awards: Golden Bear Berlin 2004, FIPRESCI Award Berlin 2004 and others.

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