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Gegen die Wand

Head-On
Duvara Karsi

Germany / Turkey 2004
produced by
Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert, Andreas Schreitmüller, Jeanette Würl for Wüste Filmproduktion, Corazón International, arte, NDR
directed by Fatih Akin
starring Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul, Stefan Gebelhoff, Francesco Fiannaca, Mona Mur, Ralph Misske, Philipp Baltus, Hermann Lause, Akrin Niwiger, Demir Gökgöl, Cem Akin, Aysel Iscan, Tim Seyfi, Andreas Thiel, Misra Tomruk, Senol Ugurlu, Sileyman Kaplan, Hatun Kazci, Güven Kirac, Canan Ata, Nurcan Esmertürk, Monique Akin, Cahit Aygüler, Adam Bousdoukos, Aytun Ede, Marco Greiser, Selim Erdogan, Feridun Koc, Tulga Serim, Tugay Erverdi, Yilmaz Canan, Alma Ouglu Sahin, Orhan Güner, Mehmet Kurtulus, Zarah McKenzie, Reinhold Schulz, Fanfare Ciocarlia
written by Fatih Akin

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Cahit (Birol Ünel) is Turkish only by birth, he has lived in Germany for decades and more or less adapted his new home's culture - so much so that he hardly speaks any Turkish anymore. But since the loss of his wife, he suffers from depressions and is a heavy alcoholic, and one day, under the influence, he crashes his car into a brick wall head-on.

He is sent to an asylum where he meets Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), who was born in Germany to Turkish immigrants raised according to Turkish traditions - traditions she cannot relate to, she wants to live her life and fuck around and ... and leave her parents. And since this is not all that easy, she has tried to kill herself, and thus is put in the same asylum as Cahit. In Cahit, who's about twice her age, she sees her future, because she reasons if she marries him, she can move out of home without any problems and then do whatever she wants, fuck whomever she wants. Love doesn't even figure in this equation. Cahit is hesitant, but when she attempts suicide before his very eyes, he gives in.

At first, the arrangement is great: Against all odds, the two really like each other, Sibel manages Cahit's household brilliantly and lights up because of her newfound freedom, and living with the young girl make Cahit's depressions fade away - and according to his on-and-off girlfriend Maren (Catrin Striebeck), the experience has even made him a better lover. Problem is when Sibel and Cahit really fall in love with each other, and suddenly all their other former lovers become a problem - until someone (Stefan Gebelhoff) who has once had an affair with Sibel, insults her in front of Cahit and he gets so enraged that he accidently kills him ...

Cahit is sent to prison for a few years, and Sibel promises she will wait for him - but she can't stay in Germany since after it's made public that she had an affair with the man Cahit has killed, her own family comes after her, wanting to kill her to restore the family's honour. Sibel escapes to Istambul to live with her cousin (Meltem Cumbul) - who soon freaks Sibel out though and as before, she descends on a downward spiral towards self-destruction that involves alcohol, drugs, rape and violence. Ultimately, she challenges a trio of young men to beat her up really good, stab her and leave her on the streets to die, but then she is found by a cabdriver ...

Years later, after his prison stint, Cahit comes to Istambul to reunite with his wife, but he has to learn that she has started a new life and now has a husband and daughter (Misra Tomruk). Still, her cousin arranges for the two of them to meet, and they fall in love all over again and actually have sex for the first time. Cahit tries to persuade Sibel to leave her husband and together with her daughter accompany him to the village where he was born - and he almost succeeds, too, she already packs her suitcase ... when she hears her husband play with her daughter which breaks her heart - and thus she breaks Cahit's heart when he the next day leaves Istambul alone ...

 


The film starts rather poorly with Birol Ünel doing a Big Lebowski-parody without being half as good or as funny as Jeff Bridges, but once the plot gets going and Ünel gets a shave and haircut, his character as well as that of free-spirited Sibel Kekilli grow on you, and they make you want to follow the story that's by no means free of clichés. As a whole, the film could have done with a little more subtlety, fewer extreme scenes and a bit more humour, and its story as such is a bit too thin for a whole two hours running time (would have been perfect for 90 minutes), but it's still a very likeable movie despite all of that, by no means a masterpiece, but at least likeable.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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