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[PAST EVENT] "Gegen die Wand" at Botetourt, Tue at 6.30 pm

February 18, 2020
6:30pm
Location
Swem Library, Botetourt Theater
400 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location

Cahit Tomruk (Birol Ünel) is the main male character in Fatih Akins movie titled „Gegen die Wand“ (2004). Heavily depressed after the death of his wife, the Turkish-German forty-something year old man spends his time in late night bars surviving on a diet of alcohol and cocaine and living as if there was no tomorrow. After a suicide attempt, he wakes up in a psychiatric ward and meets Sibel Güner (Sibel Kikelli), a Turkish-German woman who has also tried to kill herself. This is where the story begins...