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Edge of Heaven (The)
Original Title
Auf Der Anderen Seite- Director: Fatih Akin
- Writer: Fatih Akin
- Producer: Ali Akdeniz; Fatih Akin
CGiii Comment
This is cinema.
Oh, the tapestries we weave...
Fatih Akin has flawlessly woven a tale of two countries, of disparate lives into an alliance of hearts and minds.
You'll be in tatters, torn...you will be altered.
Simply...ASTOUNDING.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Nurgül Yesilçay as Ayten Öztürk aka Gül;
Baki Davrak as Nejat Aksu;
Tuncel Kurtiz as Ali Aksu;
Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Staub;
Patrycia Ziolkowska as Charlotte 'Lotte' Staub;
Nursel Köse as Yeter aka Jessy;
Ali Akdeniz as Plainclothes Policeman May 1;
Aliye Alioglu as Old woman in Camburnu;
Asuman Altinay as Türkan;
Onder Cakar as Riza Bey;
Erkan Can as Nejat's Cousin;
Emre Cosar as Cengiz;
Gengiz Daner as Gas station owner;
Sevilay Demirci as Nurhan;
Elcim Eroglu as Elcim