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Director:
Writer:
Fatih Akin (writer)
Release Date:
27 September 2007 (Germany)
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Plot:
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
21 wins
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9 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(8 articles)
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Where is the edge of heaven?
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Nurgül Yesilçay | ... | Ayten Öztürk aka Gül | |
| Baki Davrak | ... | Nejat Aksu | |
| Tuncel Kurtiz | ... | Ali Aksu | |
| Hanna Schygulla | ... | Susanne Staub | |
| Patrycia Ziolkowska | ... | Charlotte 'Lotte' Staub | |
| Nursel Köse | ... | Yeter aka Jessy | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ali Akdeniz | ... | Plainclothes Policeman May 1 | |
| Aliye Alioglu | ... | Old woman in Camburnu | |
| Asuman Altinay | ... | Türkan | |
| Onder Cakar | ... | Riza Bey | |
| Erkan Can | ... | Nejat's Cousin | |
| Emre Cosar | ... | Cengiz | |
| Gengiz Daner | ... | Gas station owner | |
| Sevilay Demirci | ... | Nurhan | |
| Elcim Eroglu | ... | Elcim | |
| Gürsoy Gemec | ... | Son of gas station owner | |
| Cigdem Göymen | ... | Selen | |
| Nurten Güner | ... | Nurten | |
| Faik Hüzmeli | ... | Waiter Londra | |
| Ilhan Hüzmeli | ... | Waiter Londra | |
| Nadire Irtel | ... | Woman in staircase | |
| Nejat Isler | ... | Commissioner | |
| Jörg Jänicke | ... | ASB | |
| Ömer Kaar | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Salih Kaar | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Yusuf Kaba | ... | Flute player | |
| Sileyman Kaplan | ... | Arif (as Süleyman 'Sly' Kaplan) | |
| Gökhan Kirac | ... | Young Police Officer | |
| Güven Kiraç | ... | Security guard | |
| Feridun Koc | ... | Security guard | |
| Mert Koc | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Öznur Kula | ... | Prisoner | |
| Sule Nayir | ... | Prison guard | |
| Stefanie Piehl | ... | Policewomen traffic check | |
| Yelda Reynaud | ... | Emine | |
| Lars Rudolph | ... | Markus Obermüller | |
| Turgay Tanülkü | ... | Cem | |
| Andreas Thiel | ... | Konsulatsmitarbeiter | |
| Gokce Isil Tuna | ... | Prisoner | |
| Annette Uhlen | ... | Judge | |
| Idil Üner | ... | Doctor | |
| Andreas Westphal | ... | Policeman traffic check | |
| Michael Wolf | ... | Border Official | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Edge of Heaven (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Ai confini del paradiso (Italy)
On the Other Side (International: English title) (literal title)
Yasamin kiyisinda (Turkey: Turkish title)
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Ai confini del paradiso (Italy)
On the Other Side (International: English title) (literal title)
Yasamin kiyisinda (Turkey: Turkish title)
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Runtime:
116 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:12 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Australia:M |
UK:15 (re-rating on appeal) |
UK:18 (original rating) |
France:Unrated |
Sweden:15 |
Ireland:15A (re-rating on appeal) |
Ireland:16 (original rating) |
Taiwan:PG-12 |
Finland:K-11 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Argentina:13 |
South Korea:15 |
Japan:PG-12
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Trivia:
Nurgül Yesilçay - who is a big star in her native Turkey - had doubts about taking on the part of Ayten as she wasn't sure how audiences would react to seeing her as a revolutionary lesbian.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: In the movie, police officials are shown in the Pasakapisi Prison. Indeed, in Turkey the prisons are guarded and controlled not by the police but by the "prison guards" and the gendarme.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "At the Movies: Summer Special 2008/09" (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Menuet In G Moll, No. 5 Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena
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Auf der anderen Seite (2007), written and directed by Faith Akin, was shown in the U.S. with the title "The Edge of Heaven." This is a powerful and moving drama that interweaves the stories of six people--a father and son, and two mother-daughter pairs. The father and son are from Turkey, but live in Germany. At the outset of the movie, one of the mother- daughter pairs is separated, with the mother in Germany and the daughter in Turkey. The other mother-daughter pair are Germans living in Germany. By the end of the movie, for various reasons, each of the six has traveled from one country to the other.
Faith Akin, himself a German of Turkish heritage, obviously understands and is comfortable in both worlds. Some of the characters in the film make the transition from one culture to the other seamlessly, but some suffer from extreme culture shock, and all of them are changed.
The acting is uniformly excellent. I particularly admired Nurgül Yesilçay as a Turkish student and radical, and Patrycia Ziolkowska as the young German woman who befriends her. Fassbinder's muse, the incomparable Hanna Schygulla, has possibly the most difficult role of the six, and, as always, she is outstanding.
We saw that film at the Rochester High Falls International Film Festival, but it will work well on a small screen. This is an extraordinary film, and it's definitely worth finding and viewing.