Additional information for Head-On, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 16, 2004. The film is being distributed by Strand Releasing and has not yet been rated. Head-On has a total running time of 121 minutes.
16
Argentina
18
Brazil
15
Czech Republic
K-15
Finland
-12
France
12
Germany
VM14
Italy
16
Netherlands
R21
Singapore
16
Switzerland
18
UK
R
USA
III
Hong Kong
R18
New Zealand
14
Chile
16
Hungary
16
Iceland
M/16
Portugal
R-18
Japan
18
South Korea
R
Australia
121min
Head-On
France
Head-On
International
Head-On
UK
Head-On
USA
Contra la pared
Argentina
Contra la pared
Spain
Contra la pared
Venezuela
Mot väggen
Finland
Mot väggen
Sweden
Contra a Parede
Brazil
Cu capul înainte
Romania
De plein fouet
Canada
Duvara karsi
Turkey
Fallal szemben
Hungary
Glavom kroz zid
Serbia
Glavom kroza zid
Croatia
Glowa w mur
Poland
Head On - A Esposa Turca
Portugal
La sposa turca
Italy
Mazi, pote!
Greece
Michigo sipeul ttae
South Korea
Mod muren
Denmark
Mot veggen
Norway
Suoraan seinään
Finland
February 12, 2004
Germany
February 29, 2004
Serbia
March 11, 2004
Germany
March 12, 2004
Turkey
April 02, 2004
Austria
April 30, 2004
Taiwan
May 06, 2004
Switzerland
May 17, 2004
France
May 19, 2004
Russia
June 18, 2004
Australia
July 03, 2004
France
July 04, 2004
Czech Republic
July 15, 2004
Russia
July 21, 2004
France
July 22, 2004
Israel
July 29, 2004
Australia
August 22, 2004
Denmark
August 27, 2004
Canada
September 02, 2004
Netherlands
September 16, 2004
Finland
September 16, 2004
Hungary
September 18, 2004
Argentina
September 18, 2004
Greece
September 22, 2004
Belgium
October 01, 2004
Finland
October 09, 2004
Poland
October 15, 2004
Hong Kong
October 15, 2004
Italy
October 16, 2004
USA
October 22, 2004
USA
October 28, 2004
UK
November 05, 2004
USA
November 10, 2004
Spain
November 12, 2004
South Korea
November 26, 2004
Denmark
November 26, 2004
Spain
December 03, 2004
Sweden
December 05, 2004
Indonesia
January 21, 2005
USA
January 28, 2005
USA
February 04, 2005
Brazil
February 18, 2005
UK
March 04, 2005
Poland
April 02, 2005
Czech Republic
April 02, 2005
USA
April 08, 2005
Mexico
April 14, 2005
Portugal
April 28, 2005
Czech Republic
May 05, 2005
Argentina
May 06, 2005
Romania
September 29, 2005
Iceland
October 14, 2005
Mexico
March 02, 2006
Slovakia
April 29, 2006
Japan
March 02, 2007
Venezuela
June 14, 2007
Finland
July 14, 2011
Greece
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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... See full summary
The movie starts off with a Turkish singing group at the edge of the water in what appears to be Istanbul. After a story telling song from the group the movie goes into a night club where a band has just finished playing. It is here where we first meet our main character Cahit Tomruk (Birol Unel). Cahit is picking up all the bottles on the floor at the club, that is his job. After Cahit is done working he goes to a local bar and gets thrown out because he starts fighting with another man after this man calls him names. The bartender knows Cahit by name and after he's done throwing him out he tells Cahit to go home. Belligerently drunk Cahit drives home and contemplates his life. After driving out of a tunnel Cahit sees a wall and decides to hit the gas and slams right into it. The next shot of Cahit is of him going to a psychologist for a check up; Cahit is in a neck brace. While sitting in the waiting room Cahit notices a beautiful girl (Sibel Kekilli) looking at him, when they call his name to go in the girl perks up. Inside Cahit and the doctor talk about his suicide attempt. Cahit ends up leaving in a bad mood and as soon as walks out of the office the girl approaches him and asks him to marry her, Cahit looks at her strange and tells her to fuck off. Later Cahit sees the girl and her family at the dining facilities; it appears that Cahit is in some sort of rehabilitation center. The girls family, especially her brother (Cem Akin) and father (Demir Gokgol), are angry at her for her attempted suicide, apparently it is not her first. Her brother warns her not to do anything stupid again because if anything happens to their father, he'll kill her. Her mother (Aysel Iscan) consoles her. Later on a walk the girl catches up with Cahit and introduces herself as Sibel. Sibel gets Cahit to escape from the center and go to a nearby bar. At the bar Sibel and Cahit talk about why one another were at the center, Sibel tells Cahit of how her brother once broke her nose when he caught her holding a boys hand. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her again and he tells her she's fucked up in the head. Sibel gets angry and breaks a wine bottle and cuts herself across the arm, Cahit gets up and immediately ties something around her arm and takes her out of the bar with him. They end up catching a bus to the hospital, on the ride they discuss why Sibel wants to get married. Sibel wants to get married because it is the only way to escape her family and they will only let her marry a Turkish man. She tells Cahit that their "marriage" will be more like a roommate relationship; she'll cover any and every expense. Cahit is fighting it the whole time but you can see him start to contemplate it. The bus driver hearing of their plan pulls over and kicks both of them out. Next the same Turkish band and scene from the beginning of the movie comes back and sings another song. After, Cahit is shown by himself in the dump that is his apartment. Next Cahit is shown talking to his best friend Guven (Guven Kirac) about the whole marriage idea. Guven thinks it is the worst idea ever and warns Cahit not to do it. Cahit is then shown clean shaven and dressed up in his best suit and Guven is pretending to be his uncle when they go meet with Sibel's family. While meeting with Sibel's family Cahit is grilled by both Yilmaz (the brother) and Yunus (the father). Guven does his best to deflect their aggressive behavior. In the kitchen Sibel and her mother talk about Cahit, Sibel's mother has a little trouble with their age difference and Cahit's demeanor. Sibel's father finally gives his blessing. Soon after the wedding is underway. Sibel is shown picking up her cousin, Selma(Meltum Cumbul), from the airport. She will be the maid of honor. Cahit and Sibel go to city hall with Guven and Selma as their witnesses and get married. While signing the license it is discovered that Cahit is a widower, much to Sibel's surprise. They are shown arguing about it as they leave city hall. Next they arrive in a hall and have a big Turkish wedding reception. When they get back to Cahit's apartment and his taking her across the threshold, Sibel's asks Cahit what his wife's name was. This infuriates Cahit because he told her not to bring it up again and he throws Sibel out and leaves her on the steps. After a while Sibel gets up and goes to the bar that's around the corner, she ends up talking the barkeeper into taking her home for the night and "steal the bride." The next day when walking back to Cahit's place she contemplates leaving with her cousin to Istanbul but ultimately decides to stay with Cahit. She turns his apartment into a livable place. Next Cahit is shown at a bar and starts talking to his friend Maren (Catrin Striebeck) and ends up sleeping with her. After the sex he asks Maren if she can give a job to his roommate Sibel in her hair salon. Sibel is hired by Maren as a hair stylist. One night Sibel talks Cahit into taking her to a club. At the club Sibel meets a guy and goes home with him, she even tells Cahit she's going go get laid and to not wait up for her. Cahit goes home bitter, and gets drunk and passes out. In the morning he goes to her room and lays on her bed and smells her pillow, it seems that Cahit is starting to like Sibel. The next scene is more of the Turkish band. Next it shows Sibel and Cahit go to Sibel's cousin's house(not Selma's) to hang out with her cousins and brother. The women sit around and gossip while the men play some sort of dominoes. During the domino game some cousins get heated with Cahit because of the things he says, mostly about how they should be sleeping with their own wives instead of going out and finding whores. Sibel and Cahit leave and Yilmaz (Sibel's brother) comes out and calls Cahit. Yilmaz confronts Cahit on not being the manager at the club but the bottle picker upper. Yilmaz asks why he lied and Cahit replies that he had to in order to be able to marry Sibel, and he only lied because he really loves her. After the cousins house Sibel and Cahit go to a local bar where Cahit gets so drunk he passes out and Sibel leaves with another man. Maren comes and takes Cahit home with her and they have sex. The next night Sibel prepares a nice home cooked meal for Cahit. During dinner Sibel talks of how her mother has been hassling her about grandchildren, Cahit tells Sibel they should make her mother some(half jokingly). Sibel takes it as a joke and tells Cahit she'll just tell her mother he is impotent plus it will be a good reason for a divorce. Cahit gets mad and they both go their separate ways for the night. Later that night Cahit goes to the club Sibel said she was going to be at. Cahit has a little trouble with the bouncer who refuses to let him in until Sibel comes out and brings Cahit in. In the club a group of guys beat up Cahit when he tries to stop one of them from hitting on Sibel. Sibel cleans up Cahit outside of the club and they go home. At home the two start getting intimate, but right before they begin to have sex Sibel stops Cahit because if they do have sex the marriage will have been consummated, and they really will be man and wife. The next day at the work Cahit tells Guven that he really is in love, this upsets Guven. Cahit even gets up on stage and dances with the band he's so happy. At Sibel's work she and Maren talk about Cahit's first wife, Katherine. It gets out that Maren and Cahit have sex, this really upsets Sibel and she storms out. Sibel goes to a fair by herself and rides some rides, while walking she buys a giant cookie that says "I love you" on it; she takes it home and places it on Cahit's pillow. At the same time Cahit is at a bar getting smack talked by Nico(Stefan Gebelhoff), one of Sibel's former lovers who just found out she was married and is upset about it. Cahit just sits there and takes it in silence until finally he turns around and just cracks Nico with a glass ashtray, it kills Nico. Right as Cahit hovers over Nico to check if he is alive, Sibel walks in. Sibel then runs home and cuts herself length ways down her arm. The next day it is in the papers that Cahit killed Nico because his wife had slept with him, it also comes out that Nico wasnt the only one. Sibel's father sees the paper and begins to burn all of Sibel's pictures, he disowns her. When Sibel walks out of the hospital her brother is waiting for her outside, she sees him and begins to run away. She eventually runs all the way to Guven's house and hides out there for a while. Next Sibel visits Cahit in jail and promises to wait for him. Next scene the band in Istanbul sings another song. Next Sibel is shown on a flight to Istanbul, now with much shorter hair. Selma gets her a job as a cleaning lady at the hotel she manages. Sibel hates it, waking up early, cleaning, and the same routine over and over. One night Sibel decides to diverge from her usual walk home and goes to a bar. She asks the bartender where she can get some drugs, he asks what kind and she says whatever. The bartender takes Sibel home and gives her opium. He talks her into moving in with him. She tells Selma about her moving and Selma tries to stop her. Sibel yells at Selma and accuses Selma of trying to make her like her, and says the reason her husband left is because she is working all the time, Selma slaps Sibel for saying such. Sibel moves in with the bartender and works at the bar and starts to party like crazy. One night she party's so hard that she passes out on the bar floor, after everyone has left the bar the bartender rapes an unconscious Sibel. A little later he kicks her out and on her way home she gets beat up by some guys who harassed her. She continues to keep getting up after each beating and talking back until finally one of the guys stabs her and they all run away and leave her for dead. Soon after a taxi pulls up and sees Sibel lying there, he picks her up and presumably takes her to the hospital. Next Band and Scene again, except now it is noticeable that time is passing in the scene. In the beginning it looked like morning while now it shows dusk. After that Cahit is shown to get out of jail, Guven picks him up. Cahit tells Guven he plans to go to Istanbul to be with Sibel. Guven tries to talk him out of it; to forget her. Cahit says she is the only reason he is still alive. Guven gives him a bunch of money he has saved up so Cahit can go to Istanbul. Cahit goes to Istanbul to Selma's hotel, which it looks like she now owns. Selma tells Cahit that Sibel has a boyfriend and a child and she's happy so to leave her alone. Cahit waits at a little hotel and finally one day Sibel calls him, she arranges to come to his hotel and see him. She spends a couple days with him and they consummate the marriage, again and again... and again. They plan to go to Mersin, the city of Cahit's birth. Cahit tells Sibel he has bought her and her daughter tickets to go, she agrees. The day comes and Sibel stands up Cahit. She is shown at her home with her baby and boyfriend. Cahit decides to get on the bus and go alone. The movie ends with the group singing a song against the Istanbul scene.
Fatih Akin
Director(s)
Fatih Akin
Writer(s)
Ali Akdeniz
line producer: Turkey
Fatih Akin
co-producer
Mehmet Kurtulus
co-producer
Andreas Schreitmüller
producer: arte
Stefan Schubert
producer
Ralph Schwingel
producer
Andreas Thiel
co-producer
Jeanette Würl
producer: NDR
Producer(s)
Alexander Hacke
Maceo Parker
Composer(s)
Cahit Tomruk
Birol Ünel
Sibel
Sibel Kekilli
Maren
Catrin Striebeck
Selma (Cousine)
Meltem Cumbul
Nico
Stefan Gebelhoff
Mann am Tresen
Francesco Fiannaca
Stammkundin Zoe Bar
Mona Mur
Patient 1 (Psychiatrie)
Ralph Misske
Patient 2 (Psychiatrie)
Philipp Baltus
Dr. Schiller
Hermann Lause
Kassiererin (Psychiatrie)
Karin Niwiger
Yunus Güner (Vater)
Demir Gökgöl
Yilmaz Güner (Bruder)
Cem Akin
Birsen Güner (Mutter)
Aysel Iscan
Kundin im Friseurladen
Monique Akin
Canan
Canan Ata
Schläger
Cahit Aygüler
Barmann - Hochzeitsnacht
Adam Bousdoukos
Türsteher #1
Yilmaz Canan
Musiker
Aytun Ede
Taxifahrer
Selim Erdogan
Osman #3
Tugay Erverdi
Nurcan
Nurcan Esmertürk
Abschlepper Disco
Marco Greiser
Busfahrer
Orhan Güner
Sly
Sileyman Kaplan
Hatice
Hatun Kazci
Seref
Güven Kiraç
Osman #1
Feridun Koc
Barmann Istanbul
Mehmet Kurtulus
Barfrau in der Fabrik (as Zarah McKenzie)
Zarah Jane McKenzie
Türsteher 2
Alma Ouglu Sahin
Gefängnisbeamter
Reinhold Schulz
Osman #2
Tulga Serim
Bayerischer Taxifahrer
Tim Seyfi
Barbier
Herr Tekin
Standesbeamter
Andreas Thiel
Pamuk - Tochter
Misra Tomruk
Shane
Senol Ugurlu
Musiker (uncredited)
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Director(s)
Writer(s)
line producer: Turkey
Fatih Akin
co-producer
Mehmet Kurtulus
co-producer
Andreas Schreitmüller
producer: arte
Stefan Schubert
producer
Ralph Schwingel
producer
Andreas Thiel
co-producer
Jeanette Würl
producer: NDR
Producer(s)
Maceo Parker
Composer(s)
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