Head-On (2004)

Original title

Gegen die Wand

Directed by

Fatih Akin

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Germany, Turkey

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

12

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 632 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German widower of Turkish descent agrees to marry a young Turkish woman so she can escape her controlling family. They live together in separate rooms, but their pretend relationship slowly turns into something real.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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