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German Cinema Classics: 'Head-On' by Fatih Akin, a modern story of star-crossed lovers

It's a movie about two Turkish-German lovers that took the film industry by storm in 2004.

'Head-On', or 'Gegen die Wand', by German director Fatih Akin, also of Turkish descent, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The story focuses on a destructive alcoholic who enters into a marriage of convenience with a young Turkish woman.

German film critic Patrick Heidmann tells Talking Movies presenter Tom Brook why it's meant so much to him, and to German cinema.

(Photo Credit - Reuters)

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