Head-On

Synopsis

Following a deliberate, high-speed suicide collision into a brick wall, a broken, alcoholic 40-year-old Turkish-German widower in Hamburg is approached in a psychiatric clinic by a rebellious 20-year-old Turkish girl who survived a suicide attempt and desperately proposes a marriage of convenience to escape the suffocating patriarchal control of her conservative family, spiraling through punk rock, drugs, and violent jealousy into real, destructive passion. Fatih Akin's Berlin Golden Bear-winning visceral masterpiece starring Birol Ünel and Sibel Kekilli with Depeche Mode and Turkish tavern music.