The Edge of Heaven
- Original title
- Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 122 min.
- Country
Germany
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Germany-Turkey;
- Genre
- Drama | Ensemble Film
- Synopsis
- 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.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2007: Cannes Film Festival: Best Screenplay, Jury Prize Ecuménico2007: European Film Awards: Best European Screenplay. 3 Nominations2007: Cesar Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film2007: 4 German Film Awards: including Best Feature Film and Director2008: Goya Awards: Nominated for Best European Movie
- Critics' reviews
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"It's a beautiful, unexpectedly enrapturing story about a world in transition"
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"The Edge of Heaven is a film to be seen, savored and thoughtfully appreciated."
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"With impeccable skill, Akin has made a film roiling with cruelty but guided by tough political optimism. No, we can't all get along, but some us of are trying"
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"It's a vivid ensemble experience, and the acting is wonderful"
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"The director, who also wrote the script, achieves a keen-eyed view of the Turkish expatriates in this film while sustaining his remarkable ability to make them universal"
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"Like a more personal, less pretentious version of Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Babel," this spiraling dissection of circumstance, choice and fate is more about thoroughness of vision than tricky storytelling"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 34 My Favorite German Movies (38)
- 52 My Top 10 Movies from 2007 (80)
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