Film and Media Atlas

How Stories Are Broadcast
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Landmark Work

Head-On (film)

World and International Narrative Cinema

Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand) is a 2004 film directed by Fatih Akin, a Germany-Turkey co-production shot in German, Turkish and English, starring Birol Unel and Sibel Kekilli. It follows a Turkish-German widower struggling with drugs and alcohol who enters a marriage of convenience with a young Turkish-German woman seeking to escape her strict family, an arrangement that develops into a genuine and destructive love. The film won the Golden Bear for best film at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival in 2004. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Original Language
German 1
Release Year
2004 1
Connections

In Medium

Film, Media Forms
Source Head-On (film) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Head-On (film) (Wikipedia)
  • Head-On (film), Description, original language
    Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand) is a 2004 film directed by Fatih Akin, a Germany-Turkey co-production shot in German, Turkish and English, starring Birol Unel and Sibel Kekilli.
  • Infobox
    12 February 2004 (Berlin)
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand, literally Against the Wall; Turkish: Duvara Karşı) is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın.
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.