Starring: Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Guven Kirac, Meltem Cumbul.
Directed by: Fatih Akin.
Produced by: Stefan Schubert, Ralph Schwingel.
MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Distributor: Strand Releasing.
Release date: January 21, 2004.
Awards: Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival
Review: Marcy's review of "Head-On."
Art/Foreign, 2 hrs. 03 min.: Set in Hamburg, the love story of two alienated Turkish-Germans, Cahit and Sibel, living between both cultures. Sibel is a beautiful 20-year-old, who, like Cahit, is of Turkish decent but far too into life to behave like a Muslim. A suicide attempt was the one-way Sibel thought she could escape the devout traditions placed on her by her parents. When that failed, her only other hope was to ask Cahit to marry her. He agrees, in hopes to save him as well, but soon the two find each other sharing a residence, but little else.
