Do not let the trailer put you off!
Although this isn't a 2006 film, I've watched it only this year and found it quite intense and dramatic. The plot is about madness, love, disillusion, life… Apparently it follows the style of a Greek tragedy, divided into five acts each one separated by a song interpreted by a traditional Turkish group. I couldn't stand all the blood but loved the anti-Hollywood ending, who said life was fair?
At this point, I should cite a comment by Simon Sieverts I've read on IMDB about this film:
The central issue of Gegen die Wand is identity: the identity of Cahit's first wife, Cahit's rejection of the identity-checking done by the doctor in the clinic, Sibel's identity crisis, Cahit's made-up identity for Sibel's family, Sibel's inability to identify herself as a wife, Cahit's inability to identify himself as Turkish, Sibel discovering her identity within the family (finally?), the missing identity of her husband at the end of the film and Cahit rediscovering his identity in the missing town of his birth (eventually?). Yes, this is depth. Shakespeare would love this film, but he would probably have done this scene as a soliloquy. Selma is a surrogate ("Ersatz" -there's a nice German word) for the audience, for he is opening his heart to us, even if we don't consciously identify with her at the beginning of the scene - she's blocking the final dramatic development, after all. What makes us forgive her?
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