Contra la pared

Here's a film that tries to say something about second-generation immigrant life. A young woman proposes a marriage of convenience to a much older Turkish addict living in Hamburg. Love, of course, blooms in the wreckage of their arrangement.

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Fatih Akin directed Contra la pared in 2004. See Fatih Akin's full filmography, where to start with Fatih Akin, or where to go after you've seen everything by Fatih Akin.

Contra la pared was released in 2004 (DE original-language production), with a runtime of 117 minutes.