Head-On2004

Director
Fatih Akin

Acters

Birol Uenel (Cahit)
Sibel Kekilli (Sibel)
Gueven Kirac (Seref)
Demir Gokgol (Yunus Guener - Father)
Catrin Striebeck (Maren)
Stefan Gebelhoff (Nico)

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict.

Cahit has removed everything Turkish from his life. He stumbles from bar to bar in Hamburg, lost in an alcoholic haze. The boozy Turkish immigrant crashes his car into a wall, which lands him in a mental institution. There he meets beautiful, scarred and suicidal Sibel, who has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy. She convinces Cahit to marry her; otherwise her family will arrange her marriage to a Turkish man of their choosing. She proposes a deal to Cahit: She will cook and clean for him and they can see other people. Cahit’s Turkish blood is enough to satisfy Sibel’s overbearing family and the two begin an unlikely marriage of convenience that has the even more unlikely consequence of making them want to live.

“Raw, powerful, extraordinary… a love story of surprisingly epic proportions!” – Newsweek

“Dripping with sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” – Daily Telegraph

“Raw, impassioned and provocative!” – BBC