CERN CineClub - Gegen die Wand (Head-On)

Thursday 22 Oct 2009, 20:30 → 22:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Gegen die Wand (Head-On) directed by Fatih Akin (Germany/Turkey, 2004) 121 min. In St. Pauli, Hamburg, the alcoholic, drugged and hopeless German with Turkish roots Cahit Tomruk lives like a pig in a small dirty apartment and survives collecting empty bottles in the night-club "Der Fabrik". One night, he gives up living, and hits his car against a wall. However, he survives the crash and is sent to a clinic, where he meets Sibel Güner, a younger German Turk, with suicidal tendencies. Sibel is the younger daughter of a conservative Turkish family, and proposes a fake marriage to Cahit, in order to permit her to leave her family; in return, she would share the rent of the flat, and she would cook and clean the place, and they could have independent lives. Cahit accepts, but while living with Sibel, he falls in love with her, until a tragedy happens. Original version german/turkish; english subtitles