Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (BFI Film Classics)

The award-winning love tale Head-On (2004) has been embroiled in Turkish-German id politics seeing that its unlock. starting up clean traces of enquiry, Daniela Berghahn's unique and pleasing account of the film's construction background and reception in its place situates the movie within the wealthy context of worldwide paintings cinema and transnational melodrama.

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