When Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) won the Golden Bear at the
Berlin International Film Festival, it was hailed as a turning
point for German cinema. Not only was this unconventional love
story the first German film in eighteen years to win the
prestigious award, but the success of writer-director Fatih Akin
was also celebrated as the revival of German auteur cinema.
Meanwhile Turkey claimed Akin as its own prodigal son and his film
a victory for Turkish cinema. Daniela Berghahn provides a detailed
and entertaining account of the film's artistic inspirations, its
production history and the debates that surrounded it in the German
and Turkish press. Arguing that much of the media discourse on
Turkish German identity politics detracted from Akin's remarkable
artistic achievement, Berghahn instead situates Head-On in the
critical contexts of global art cinema and transnational melodrama.
This comparative approach excavates new layers of meaning and
offers highly original insights into Akin's landmark film.
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