Fatih Akin's surprisingly grisly feature spills more blood than both of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL films combined, which is strange when you consider that it's a love story. Even more surprising is that this downbeat, multi-culti drama about two suicidal Turkish-Germans who find each other before finding themselves was a huge hit in its native Germany. First-generation, German-born Turk Cahit Tomruk (Birol Unel) meets the intoxicatingly beautiful Sibel (surprisingly talented porn actress Sibel Kekilli) in a Hamburg psychiatric facility after deliberately driving his car head-on into a brick wall. Sibel is in the clinic for slashing her wrists, but meeting Cahit su...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
118 mins