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Head-On (also know as Gegen die Wand) full movie is released on Mar 11, 2004. Watch Head-On online - the German Drama movie from Germany , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $11,065,801. Head-On is directed by Fatih Akin and created by Fatih Akin with Birol Ünel and Güven Kiraç.

In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love.

As know as:

Gegen die Wand, Glavom kroza zid, Mod muren, Contra a Parede, Michigo sipeul ttae

Release Date:

Feb 12, 2004

Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 13, 2005

Countries:

Germany, Turkey

Language:

German, Turkish, English

Stream Service:

Strand Releasing

Production Companies:

ARTE, Bavaria Film International, Corazón International

Gross worldwide:

$11,065,801

Taglines:

Raw, Powerful, Extraordinary... A Love Story of Surprisingly Epic Proportions!, You don't really know how much you can love...

Reviews

Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph (UK)
A punky, noisy romance full of life and emotion and ideas that captures the moment in the style of contemporary classics such as My Beautiful Laundrette and Trainspotting.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 01, 2019
David Ansen
Newsweek
That this marriage of convenience between two cultural misfits will eventually lead to love may sound like a contrivance, but that's not at all the way it plays. Akin's raw, powerful, multileveled movie takes us places we never expected to go.
by rottentomatoes, Mar 13, 2018
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
Ultimately more provocative than insightful.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 10, 2006

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