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Gegen Die Wand = : Head on

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  • "Evil old songs"
  • "Head on"
  • "Head-on"

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  • "Cahit Tomruk is in his forties, a rock 'n' rolling boozer with a purposeless, dead-end job. Sibel Güner desperately wants to escape her conservative Turkish family. Both are German-born Turks equally ill at ease in either culture; seeking a new life, and a morality that will withstand the constant shuttling between codes. They marry--a marriage of convenience. Eventually his nihilism and her promiscuity lead to violence and jail for him, and scandal and possible death for her. She goes into hiding in Istanbul and after he gets out, he goes to Turkey to find her. This dark and vibrant story reflects the unstable moods of Turks in Germany, a half assimilated, half-alien population whose future is a quest and whose passion is ongoing."
  • "A melodrama of a Turkish man and woman living in Germany, torn between two cultures, tradition and modernity, survival and death."
  • "Cahit is a German Turk in his 40's. Since his wife's death, he has had suicidal tendencies. One night, he semi-intentionally crashes into a wall. At the hospital that he is taken to, he meets a woman, Sibel, another German Turk who has also tried to commit suicide. She is fed up with her family's conservative family values, and proposes a fake marriage to Cahit, in order to permit her to leave her family; in return, she would share the rent of the flat, and cook and clean the place, but they would have independent lives. Cahit accepts, but while living with Sibel, he falls in love with her, until a tragedy happens."
  • "Cahit, from Mersin in Turkey, has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic and drug addict and wants to end it all. Sibel, 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. She approaches Cahit at the hospital 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. The film then tells of the consequences that follow. Source : IMDB."
  • "Feature film from Germany. Drama. Surviving a suicide attempt, Cahit, a German Turk, meets Sibel, also suicidal, who proposes a fake marriage in order to escape the pressure of her traditional Turkish family."
  • "Un mariage de convenance contracté entre deux Allemands d'origine turque se transforme en admiration mutuelle puis en amour véritable."

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  • "Motion pictures, German"
  • "Drama"
  • "Motion pictures, German language"
  • "Motion pictures, Turkish language"
  • "Feature films"

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  • "Gegen Die Wand = : Head on"
  • "Gegen die Wand Head-on"
  • "Gegen die Wand Head on"
  • "Gegen die wand Head-on"
  • "Gegen die Wand (Motion picture)"

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