 Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
Starring: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Güven Kirac, Meltem Cumbul, Zarah McKenzie, Francesco Fiannaca
Directed by: Fatih Akin
Screenplay by: Fatih Akin
Release Date: January 21, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic sexuality, pervasive language, some brutal violence and drug content.
Studio: Strand Releasing
 Domestic: $435,395 (3.9%)
Foreign: $10,595,466 (96.1%)
Total: $11,030,861 (Worldwide)
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 A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story. Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Set in Hamburg, this is the love story of two alienated Turkish-Germans, Cahit and Sibel, living between both cultures. Sibel is a beautiful 20-year-old, who, like Cahit, is of Turkish decent but far too into life to behave like a Muslim.
A suicide attempt was the one way Sibel thought she could escape the devout traditions placed on her by her parents. When that failed, her only other hope was to ask Cahit to marry her. He agrees, in hopes to save himself as well, but soon the two find each other sharing a residence, but little else.
Cahit and Sibel, both Germans with Turkish roots, marry formally to allow Sibel to break out of the strict rules of her conservative family. They share a flat, but she claims an independant sex life. Cahit takes that very easy in the beginning, but when he envies one of her lovers he kills him and has to go to prison.
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