Gegen die Wand / Head-On (2004)
Drama | Romance
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.
Starring: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck
Director: Fatih Akin
What a Man (2011)
Comedy | Romance
The comedy WHAT A MAN tells the story of a young teacher, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), which begins, triggered by the separation from his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie Hörbiger), a journey to the self and the roots of his manhood. But how do you bypass the pitfalls of modern man? And what makes a man today really really a man?
Alex is 30 years young and a thoroughly amiable and domesticated man as his girlfriend, Caroline, one day with Jens (Thomas Kretschmann), the tough guy from the second floor, blowing Alex and throws even from their apartment, breaks for him a world together. Exhausted, he seeks solace and refuge with his friend Nele wonderfully chaotic (Sibel Kekilli), but who knows how to save pandas, but when it comes to relationships themselves have not really sorted.
While Alex muses in Neles messy apartment of his old relationship, it is always more to ponder: Maybe men need to use it peeing his macho tough, standing up and only musk deodorant? Alex's best friend "Okke" (Elyas M'Barek), a loveable wannabe-macho would that question with "Yes!" . answer He takes Alex by the hand to make him a "real man".
Unfortunately, his attempts fail, and excursions into the realm of testosterone miserably, and a mysterious, self-discovery in the woods of specialized men's coach named Volker (Milan Peschel) is no relief. Nevertheless changed Alex's view of things more: Maybe it's not for him to do so, another man will be, but to find a woman who loves him just as he is?
With this burgeoning new knowledge and an unexpected, honest love in the luggage, Alex slides just past the total disaster and assumes the principal branch of his life, a way into an unexpected direction: to himself.
Starring: Matthias Schweighöfer, Sibel Kekilli, Elyas M'Barek, Mavie Hörbiger
Director: Matthias Schweighöfer
