Funny story, the Seattle International Film Festival showed Head On in 1999 or 2000. This year, they featured Fatih Akin, a Turkish-German as an emerging master, and in addition to showing his current film, The Edge of Heaven -- which I HIGHLY recommend, they opted to show his earlier film, Gegen die Wand or "Head-On" (do you see where this is going??)

As they rolled the opening of Head-On, it was apparent that what was being shown did NOT have a hyphen in the title, which, given the opening sequence, probably confused and angered some, but aroused others. One of the passholders ran to the venue manager to alert them of the error (did he wait until the climax of the opening sequence?). They apparently showed the entire unhyphenated version and apologized profusely. The Festival Programmers later announced that one of the TBA slots at the end of the festival would have "Head-On", Akin's version.

The explanation I heard was that apparently the two films have the same US distributor, and well, someone wasn't looking close enough.


gotta agree with wiredboy, it was a depressing, disturbing film, despite the fact that Dimatriades can arouse a straight man. And then I'll disagree with Derick...Adam and Steve...Horrid movie.