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  • 2005
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  • 2 h 1 m
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Head-On

Summary A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story. Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany. (Strand Releasing)

Directed By: Fatih Akin

Written By: Fatih Akin

  • 2005
  • R
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m

Head-On

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 27 User Ratings
7.9
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Summary A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story. Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany. (Strand Releasing)

Directed By: Fatih Akin

Written By: Fatih Akin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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Not about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
88
The love that heals and the love that kills are one and the same in the exhilarating Head-On, Fatih Akin's overgrown dead-end-kid romance for live-wire adults.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
80
Vital and affecting romantic drama.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
78
But for all the film's griminess and doom, bad behavior and bad luck, it's hope that engines Head-On.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW
75
The movie is well and fearlessly acted, and the writer-director (Fatih Akin) is determined to follow her story to a logical and believable conclusion, rather than letting everyone off the hook with a conventional ending.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
Fatih Akin's surprisingly grisly feature spills more blood than both of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films combined, which is strange when you consider that it's a love story.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
Ünel and the debuting Kekilli are as impressive as Akin’s atmospheric snapshots of Hamburg and Istanbul.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 27 User Ratings
7.9
93% Positive
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7% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 27 User Ratings
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93% Positive
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0% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Production Company ARTE, Bavaria Film International, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Corazón International, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Panfilm, Wüste Film
Release Date Jan 21, 2005
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Raw, Powerful, Extraordinary... A Love Story of Surprisingly Epic Proportions!
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Awards

European Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany"
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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