A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
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Fatih AkinWriter:
Fatih Akin
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Cast
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Gürsoy Gemec | ... |
Sohn des Tankstelleninhabers
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Cengiz Daner | ... |
Tankstelleninhaber
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Idil Üner | ... |
Ärztin
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Cousin Ufuk
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Turgay Tanülkü | ... |
Cem
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Elcim Eroglu | ... |
Elcim
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Nurten Güner | ... |
Nurten
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Asuman Altinay | ... |
Türkan
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Gökhan Kiraç | ... |
Junger Polizeibeamter
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Kommissar
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Lars Rudolph | ... |
Herr Obermüller
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Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten. Written by omayra73@yahoo.com
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Release Date:
27 September 2007 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$18,593, 25 May 2008, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$741,283, 12 October 2008Company Credits
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Anka Film, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Dorje Film See more »
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Nejat Aksu: I asked my dad if he would have sacrificed me as well.
Susanne Staub: And what did he say?
Nejat Aksu: That he would even make an enemy of God to protect me.
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Written by Maçkali Hasan Tunç
Performed by Kazim Koyuncu and Sevval Sam
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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. See more »Goofs
In the film, the year is 2006 and it is the Festival of Sacrifices (Kurban Bayrami), a religious holiday. Everybody is in summer clothes and many of them are sweating. The Festival of Sacrifices in 2006 in Turkey was in winter, at the end of December. See more »Quotes
story: After telling the story of Abraham that was willing to sacrifice his son, Ismael, to show God his obedience. Before Abraham could slay his son God sent a lamb to sacrifice instead.Nejat Aksu: I asked my dad if he would have sacrificed me as well.
Susanne Staub: And what did he say?
Nejat Aksu: That he would even make an enemy of God to protect me.
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Crazy Credits
Towards the end of the credits, details about the book Nejat gives to his father are given (it's a Turkish translation of "Die Tochter des Schmieds" by Selim Özdogan) with a request to read it: "Lest dieses Buch, Leute!" ("Read this book, people!") Selim Özdogan is a friend of Fatih Akin. See more »Soundtracks
Ben Seni SevdigimiWritten by Maçkali Hasan Tunç
Performed by Kazim Koyuncu and Sevval Sam
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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.