Diagonaldi Very well executed

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

adonis98-743-186503 With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love. Gegen die Wand might be one of the funniest films i have ever seen especially when the girl gets beaten by 3 dudes and starts calling them names and attacking one of them again and again and then her face started turning into 'Balboa' from the beating plus she was on the floor and someone took advantage of her. I mean one of the funniest comedies of all time just don't see it tho. (0/10)

Sindre Kaspersen German screenwriter, producer and director F Akin's fourth feature film which he wrote and co-produced with producers Ralph Schwingel and Stefan Schubert, is the first part of a planned trilogy called "Love, death and the devil" which was succeeded by "The Edge of Heaven" (2007). It premiered In competition at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival in 2004, was shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey and Germany and is a Germany-Turkey co-production. It tells the story about Cahit Tomruk, a heartbroken and devastated man in his early forties who is slowly killing himself with alcohol and drugs, and Sibel Güner, a both suicidal and lively woman in her early twenties tormented by the guilt and shame that has been brought upon her by her family who sees her as a disgrace. After nearly driving himself to death, Cahit is sent to a psychiatric hospital in Hamburg, Germany where he meets Sibel who wants him to marry her so that she can get away from her family. Cahit is more bothered than interested in this young woman, but when he learns about her situation with her family he decides to help her out and marries her. Sibel moves in with Cahit and though leading separate lives, Sibel tries her utmost to gain Cahit's affection. Cahit acts unresponsive to everything Sibel does, but as time goes by Cahit has a change of heart that opens new doors for them.Distinctly and engagingly directed by European filmmaker F Akin, this finely tuned fictional tale which is narrated mostly from the two main characters' viewpoints, draws an involving, violent and painfully beautiful portrayal of an unconventional and dangerously passionate relationship between a German man of Turkish descent whom is doing his utmost to detach himself from his origins and a German woman of Turkish descent whom is striving to get away from her family and for her independence. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, fine cinematography by Swiss cinematographer Rainer Klausmann and production design by production designer Tamo Kunz, this character-driven and narrative-driven story about cultural clash, grief, interpersonal relations, identity and love, depicts two intertwining and internal studies of character and contains a great score by German composer Alexander Hache and American musician Maceo Parker.This valiant, heartfelt and afflicting drama from the early 2000s which is set in Turkey and Germany and where a marriage creates a life-altering human connection, is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, efficient continuity, use of music which emphasizes its poignant atmosphere and the unflinching and expressive acting performances by German actor of Turkish descent Birol Ünel and German actress of Turkish descent Sibel Kekilli in her debut feature film role. An emotionally excruciating and compassionately narrated love-story which gained, among several other awards, the Golden Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 54th Berlin Film Festival in 2004, the award for Best European Film and the People's Choice Award for Best European Director at the 17th European Film Awards in 2004 and the NSFC Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards in 2006.

the_bichu After a long time i have this type of movie, which didn't made me bore. the actress Sibel Kekilli has done a great job and justice to her character.Although i had difficulty to watch this movie due to language as i have to read subtitles of English, but i am glad i understand and enjoyed the movie.May be no one agree with me but if the end would be a different then i would have rated this movie 10, understand sh sacrifices her love/husband for her baby but still there can be a different end. overall the movie was fabulous and i enjoyed it a lot.Sibel Kekilli really got a great face and cute expressions and body, looking forward to watch her more movies.I also loved the dancing in this movie. Everyone has done a good job and made a perfect movie.

buiger A good film, but nothing special, I expected much more having already seen Faith Akin's newest film "Auf Der Anderen Seite" which is excellent!Sometimes the movie looks and feels like a diluted Kusturica movie, it has at times also a feel that it was artificially constructed to please and that takes away from what could have been a much better film. The acting is generally very good, the story is interesting and the characterization also, but there is something missing, something that would bind it all together into a coherent whole. Like this, the film is merely a collection of good (and not so good) scenes that do not always seem to be connected to each other and do not always make very much sense, especially in the second half of the movie. Again, not bad, but certainly nothing to write home about.