Head-On (film)

For other films with a similar name, see Head On (disambiguation).

Head-On
Theatrical film poster
Directed byFatih Akın
Written byFatih Akın
Produced byStefan Schubert
Ralph Schwingel
Andreas Schreitmüller
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Fatih Akın
StarringBirol Ünel
Sibel Kekilli
Catrin Striebeck
Meltem Cumbul
CinematographyRainer Klausmann
Edited byAndrew Bird
Music byAlexander Hacke
Mona Mur
Maceo Parker
Daniel Puente Encina ("Niños Con Bombas" and "Polvorosa")
Production
companies
Distributed byTimebandits Films (Germany)
R Film (Turkey)
Release dates
  • 12 February 2004 (2004-02-12) (Berlin)
  • 11 March 2004 (2004-03-11) (Germany)
  • 19 March 2004 (2004-03-19) (Turkey)
Running time
121 minutes
CountriesGermany
Turkey
LanguagesGerman
Turkish
English
Box office$11,030,861[1]

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.

  1. ^ Head On at Box Office Mojo