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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.
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
Themes
- drug abuse
- religious education
- alcohol
- fictitious marriage
- homicide
- roommates
- religion and supernatural
- turkey
- love
- family
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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
- Germany, Turkey
- Languages
- German, Turkish, English
- Box office
- $11,030,861
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 116
- FilmAffinity ID
- 602132
- Official website
- www.gegendiewand.de
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- title
- Duvara Karșı
- publication date
- 2004-00-00
- review score
- 78/100
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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.