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“The Edge of Heaven” (2007) overview

[ “The Edge of Heaven” German promotional poster ]

Retired widower Ali, a Turkish immigrant living in the German city of Bremen, believes to have found a solution to his loneliness as he meets Turkey-born prostitute Yeter. He offers her a monthly payment to move in.

Ali's son Nejat, a professor of German literature, disapproves of father's choice of Yeter as 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.

As Nejat begins to care for Yeter, tension arises between himself and his father. Yeter's sudden death, an accident caused by a drunken blow from Ali, serves to distance father and son further from each other emotionally. Ali is imprisoned and later deported to Turkey where he returns to his home town on the Black Sea.

Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. He decides to resettle in Turkey, running the German bookshop in Istanbul. Political radical 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.

Following emotional moments with Susanne, Nejat starts a journey to search for his father, who is living in a Black Sea town...

Director and Writer: Fatih Akin (written by). Co-producers: Ali Akdeniz, Erhan Özogul, Funda Ödemis, Fatih Akin. Music: Shantel. Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann. Editing: Andrew Bird. Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann (BVK). Production design: Tamo Kunz, Sirma Bradley

Cast

Nurgül Yesilçay as Ayten Öztürk

Baki Davrak as Nejat Aksu

Tuncel Kurtiz as Ali Aksu

Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Staub

Patrycia Ziolkowska as Lotte Staub

Nursel Köse as Yeter

Lars Rudolph as Herr Obermüller

Andreas Thiel as Konsulatsmitarbeiter

Runtime: 122 min. Countries: Germany, Turkey. Languages: German, Turkish, English. Color: Color. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Certification: UK:15 (re-rating on appeal), Switzerland: 14 (canton of Vaud, (canton of Geneva), Australia: M, UK: 18 (original rating), Germany: 12, Sweden: 15

Premieres

France - May 23,  2007 (Cannes Film Festival); July 5, 2007 (Paris Cinema); July 7, 2007 (La Rochelle Film Festival); November 14, 2007

Finland - June 15, 2007 (Midnight Sun Film Festival)

Thailand - July 25, 2007 (Bangkok International Film Festival)

Philippines - August 8, 2007 (Cinemanila International Film Festival)

Canada - September 7, 2007 (Toronto Film Festival); October 2, 2007 (Edmonton International Film Festival)

Germany - September 27, 2007; February 11, 2008 (Berlin International Film Festival)

Iceland - September 27, 2007 (Reykjavik International Film Festival)

Czech Republic - October 4, 2007 (German Language Film Festival)

Sweden - October 26, 2007

Turkey - October 26, 2007

Spain - November 6, 2007 (Seville Film Festival); March 14, 2008

Italy - November 9, 2007 (limited)

Belgium - November 14, 2007

United Arab Emirates - December 13, 2007 (Dubai International Film Festival)

Norway - January 4, 2008

Greece - January 17, 2008

Hong Kong - January 24, 2008

Portugal - January 25, 2008

Netherlands - February 7, 2008

USA - February 8, 2008 (Portland International Film Festival); May 21, 2008

UK - February 22, 2008

Finland - March 7, 2008

Israel - March 20, 2008

Awards for “The Edge of Heaven”

year / result / award / category / recipient

Cannes Film Festival

2007 / Won / Best Screenplay / Fatih Akin

2007 / Nominated / Golden Palm / Fatih Akin

César Awards, France

2008 / Nominated / César / Best Foreign Film / Fatih Akin

European Film Awards

2007 / Won / European Film Award / Best Screenwriter / Fatih Akin

2007 / Nominated / European Film Award / Best Director / Fatih Akin

2007 / Nominated / European Film Award / Best Film / Fatih Akin

Bavarian Film Awards

2008 / Won / Bavarian Film Award / Best Director / Fatih Akin

Cinemanila International Film Festival

2007 / Won / Lino Brocka Award / Fatih Akin

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

2007 / Won / Golden Orange / Best Director / Fatih Akin

2007 / Won / Golden Orange / Best Editing / Andrew Bird

2007 / Won / Golden Orange / Best Supporting Actor / Tuncel Kurtiz

2007 / Won / Golden Orange / Best Supporting Actress / Nursel K?se

2007 / Won / Special Jury Award / Fatih Akin

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Filming locations

Bremen, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

Kadiköy, Istanbul, Turkey

Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey

Trabzon, Turkey

Companies

Production

Anka Film >>>>

BKM (funding)

Dorje Film

Filmförderung Hamburg (funding)

Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (funding)

Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (funding)

Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein (funding)

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

Nordmedia Fonds GmbH (funding)

Distribution

Strand Releasing (2008) (USA) (theatrical)

Artificial Eye (2007) (UK) (theatrical)

Sharmill Distributors (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)

A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

Cineworx (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Future Film (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)

The Match Factory (2007) (worldwide) (all media) (sales agent)

Medyavizyon (2007) (Turkey) (theatrical)

Pandora Filmproduktion (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)

Pyramide Distribution (2007) (France) (theatrical)

Other

Corazón International - publicity

Mama Filmcatering - catering

Soundtrack

"Sahara Blues" - Menuet In G Moll, No. 5 Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

Additional details

Director Fatih Akin was born in Germany, but his Turkish heritage has been an inescapable fact of his identity.

Germany's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

“The Edge of Heaven” also known as: “Auf der Anderen Seite” (original title), “On the Other Side,” “Yasamin Kiyisinda” (Turkish title).

 

 

 

 

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