Head-On (film)
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| Directed by | Fatih Akın |
| Written by | Fatih Akın |
| Produced by | Stefan Schubert Ralph Schwingel Andreas Schreitmüller Mehmet Kurtuluş Fatih Akın |
| Starring | Birol Ünel Sibel Kekilli Catrin Striebeck Meltem Cumbul |
| Cinematography | Rainer Klausmann |
| Edited by | Andrew Bird |
| Music by | Alexander Hacke Mona Mur Maceo Parker Daniel Puente Encina ("Niños Con Bombas" and "Polvorosa") |
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| Distributed by | Timebandits Films (Germany) R Film (Turkey) |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Turkey |
| Languages | German Turkish English |
| Box office | $11,030,861 |
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.