Head-On(Movie, 2004)

Name: Head-On
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2004
Duration: T02:1:00
Rating: 3.7

Original title: "Gegen die Wand" (German/DE)

| 2h 1min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 231 votes)

Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand, literally Against the Wall; Turkish: Duvara Karşı) is a 2004 German-Turkish 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. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Head-On

Golden Bear European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director nominated for: European Film Award for Best Film nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actress nominated for: European Film Award for Best Director nominated for: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter nominated for: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor nominated for: European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director

About Head-On

With 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.

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Trailer for Head-On + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Gegen die Wand ≣ 2004 ≣ Trailer ≣ Remastered(Trailer, 1:51)

Gegen die Wand ≣ 2004 ≣ Trailer ≣ Remastered (Trailer, DE) | Trailer (De) (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.gegendiewand.de

Production countries: Germany, Turkey

Shot in: Germany

Plays in: Istanbul, Hamburg, St. Pauli

Made by: Arte, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Corazón International, Wüste Filmproduktion, Panfilm, Bavaria Film International

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Turkish (TR)

Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/16/2004 (World premiere: 03/11/2004)

Cast: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Güven Kıraç, Stefan Gebelhoff, Meltem Cumbul, Hermann Lause, Demir Gökgöl, Cem Akin, Mona Mur, Adam Bousdoukos, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Tim Seyfi, Andreas Thiel, Fanfare Ciocărlia, Ralph Misske, Philipp Baltus, Selim Erdoğan, Selim Sesler, İdil Üner, Maceo Parker, Orhan Güner, Monique Akin

Director: Fatih Akin

Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert, Fatih Akin, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Andreas Thiel

Screenwriter: Fatih Akin

Executive Producer: Fatih Akin

Film Editor: Andrew Bird

Director of Photography: Rainer Klausmann

Composer: Alexander Hacke

Costume designer: Katrin Aschendorf

Make-up Artist: Daniel Schröder, Nursen Balci

Production Designer: Tamo Kunz

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Contra a Parede"

"Contra la pared"

"미치고 싶을 때"

"Mot veggen"

"Mot väggen"

"Duvara Karşı"

"Head On"

Keywords: religious education, drug abuse, homicide, hamburg, germany, roommate, family, turkey, alcohol, love, religion and supernatural, fictitious marriage

Revenue: 11,030,861 USD

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