Head On (Duvara Karsi) (18)
- Consumer Advice: Contains very strong language, strong sex, hard drug use and suicide theme
- Run time: 2 hours
- Language: Turkish, German and English with English subtitles
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 18th February 2005
- Starring: Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck
- Directed by: Fatih Akin
- Official Website: www.gegendiewand.de
- Distributor: Soda Pictures
Plot Synopsis
Fatih Akin's critically acclaimed HEAD-ON, is compelling, sexy, thought provoking and original love story. Set in Germany and Turkey, the film is both terrifying and intelligent, with black-comic elements and outstanding performances all round, particularly from newcomer Sibel Kekilli, 'discovered' in a German shopping centre.
Head-On tells the story of troubled Turkish-German characters Sibel and Cahit. Sibel is a young woman struggling against the demands of her strict Turkish father and brother. She just wants to be free to drink and dance and make love, and the only way she can escape is to marry a Turkish man. Cahit, with a hangover from hell, is very surprised when he receives a proposal of marriage from this beautiful, crazy girl he has just met in hospital. The biggest surprise of all however, is the turnaround that occurs in both their lives as Cahit and Sibel come back to their roots, a lost culture, and themselves. Set in underground Hamburg and historic eastern mecca, Istanbul, Head-On is "searingly passionate, dripping with sex, drugs and rock and roll" (Daily Telegraph) , almost like "Romeo and Juliet on speed" (Hotdog)...