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 sh... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranImpeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisNot about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAri comes off as little more than a self-centered, bigoted layabout, contemptuous of anyone who works for a living and a trial to his family. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovKokkinos ... goes at it all with a relentless, take-no-prisoners panache and pace; this film moves. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIt's a brutally convincing movie about two hell-bent young Turkish-German lovers dancing on the edge of destruction in a Hamburg underworld of drugs and casual sex. Yet it's also compassionate and even tender. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowThe love that heals and the love that kills are one and the same in the exhilarating Head-On, Fatih Akin's overgrown dead-end-kid romance for live-wire adults. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIn its breathlessly claustrophobic way the movie is vital and passionate, and lit with a lyric beauty that washes over love scenes and violent acts alike. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenAkin's raw, powerful, multileveled movie takes us places we never expected to go. |
| New York PostDebra BirnbaumAn intoxicating, heartbreaking Turkish-German drama that's already won a slew of awards from international film festivals. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonNo matter what is going on in the story, these star-crossed lovers are always fascinating to watch. |
