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Edge of Heaven, The (Auf der anderen Seite)
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...
Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg and began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, Sensin - You're The One! (Sensin - Du bist es!), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, followed by Weed (Getuerkt, 1996). His first full length feature film, Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos, 1998), won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. His other films include: In July (Im Juli, 2000), Wir haben vergessen zurueckzukehren (2001), Solino (2002), the Berlinale Golden Bear-winner and winner of the German and European Film Awards Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004), Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul (2005), The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite, 2007), and Soul Kitchen (2009).Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2007
Director Fatih Akin
Screenplay Fatih Akin
Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann
Editor Andrew Bird
Music by Stefan "Shantel" Hantel
Production Design Tamo Kunz, Sirma Bradley
Producers Fatih Akin, Andreas Thiel, Klaus Maeck
Production Company Corazón International/Hamburg, in co-production with NDR/Hamburg, Anka Film/Istanbul, Dorje Film/Rome
Principal Cast Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nurcel Koese, Hanna Schygulla, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nurguel Yesilcay
Casting Monique Akin
Length 122 min, 3,312 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German/Turkish/English
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital Surround Ex
Festival Screenings Cannes 2007 (In Competition), Karlovy Vary 2007, Toronto 2007, Vancouver 2007, Ghent 2007, Sevilla 2007, Antalya 2007, London 2007, Thessaloniki 2007, Havana 2007, Berlin & Beyond San Francisco 2007, Palm Springs 2008, Berlin 2008 (German Cinema), Sofia 2008 (Retrospective), Philadephia 2008, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2008, Huesca 2008, Seattle 2008, Kolkata 2008, Gijon 2009
Awards Best Screenplay Cannes 2007, Lux Award 2007 of the European Parliament, Jury Award, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor (Tuncel Kurtiz), Best Supporting Actress (Nursel Koese), Award of Honor (Hannah Schygulla) Antalya 2007, Canvas Audience Award Ghent 2007, European Film Award: Best Screenplay 2007, Premio de la Critica Seville 2007, Bavarian Film Award 2007 (Best Director), German Film Award 2008 (Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screeplay, Best Editing)
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Filmstiftung NRW, Nordmedia, Kulturelle Filmfoerderung Schleswig-Holstein
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