Head-On (Directors Suite) (German/Turkish)

 
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Head-On (Directors Suite) (German/Turkish) 

[ Madman Entertainment / DVD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 29 March 2006

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Rated: R18 - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993R18 Violence, sexual violence, drug use, offensive lang & sex scenes

A sexually-explicit drama about second-generation Turkish immigrants ("guest-workers" or gästarbeiter) in Germany, Head On is an exploration of love and anguish in culturally-repressive worlds. Numbed by drugs, alcohol and a deep depression, Cahit drives his car into a wall. In the hospital he meets Sibel, a beautiful young Muslim girl who attempted suicide to escape from her conservative family. Bound by their shared heritage and desperate to change their lives Cahit and Sibel devise a plan to live together in a marriage of convenience. Gradually they begin to fall in love, until an explosion of jealousy sends Cahit to jail and Sibel to Turkeyboth vowing eternal fidelity. A raw and uncompromising drama, Head On is one of the first films to tackle the problems facing Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Director: Faith Akin
Languages: German / Turkish
English subtitles

"Intense, romantic, funny-sad...an always moving portrait of cultural estrangement and the power of love"
- Hollywood Reporter