---
title: 'Head-On (2004)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Fatih Akin'
released: '2004-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 116
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'Turkey'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/head-on-2004'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347048/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Head-On (2004)

2004 · 116 min · Drama, Romance · Germany, Turkey

Original title: Gegen die Wand
Part of: Love, Death and Evil trilogy

## Synopsis

Head-On is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın. It stars Birol Ünel as a Turkish-born, alcoholic German widower who enters into a marriage of convenience with a young woman of Turkish descent. She is desperate to escape her restrictive and abusive male relatives.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Fatih Akin](https://cinepixo.com/people/fatih-akin)
- **Screenplay:** [Fatih Akin](https://cinepixo.com/people/fatih-akin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alexander Hacke](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-hacke)
- **Producer:** [Ralph Schwingel](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-schwingel), [Stefan Schubert](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefan-schubert)
- **Director of Photography:** [Rainer Klausmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-klausmann)
- **Editor:** [Andrew Bird](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-bird)

## Cast

- [Orhan Güner](https://cinepixo.com/people/orhan-guner)
- [Adam Bousdoukos](https://cinepixo.com/people/adam-bousdoukos)
- [Mehmet Kurtuluş](https://cinepixo.com/people/mehmet-kurtulus)
- [Fanfare Ciocărlia](https://cinepixo.com/people/fanfare-ciocarlia)
- [Ralph Misske](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-misske)
- [Stefan Gebelhoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefan-gebelhoff)
- [Catrin Striebeck](https://cinepixo.com/people/catrin-striebeck)
- [Maceo Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/maceo-parker)
- [Hermann Lause](https://cinepixo.com/people/hermann-lause)
- [Monique Akin](https://cinepixo.com/people/monique-akin)
- [Tim Seyfi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-seyfi)
- [Cem Akın](https://cinepixo.com/people/cem-ak-n)
- [İdil Üner](https://cinepixo.com/people/idil-uner)
- [Meltem Cumbul](https://cinepixo.com/people/meltem-cumbul)
- [Andreas Thiel](https://cinepixo.com/people/andreas-thiel)

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Official site: http://www.gegendiewand.de/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/head-on-2004
Film facts: Wikidata (Q325648); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.