The Edge of Heaven

2007
7.7| 2h2m| en
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The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

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Also starring Baki Davrak

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Andres-Camara When I see this film, I wonder why there is always talk of forgiveness in such extreme cases that society is not really willing to forgive. Anyone on the street if they were at the site of these characters, would not forgive what is forgiven in this movie.I'm surprised one thing about the movie. How well he sometimes uses ellipsis and how badly he uses them at other times. The latter are usually when you do not know how to get out of the moment in which you have gotten, makes an ellipsis and continues, however at other times, tells you several planes of a journey that no one cares to see. However good that is the ellipsis of the airport.The actors are very well. We have two types, those who forgive everything and those who only do bad things. But they are all very well in their roles. The problem is that being interesting the film and getting it is not slow if it makes it distant.He has a photograph that does not tell me anything other than thinking I do not use it.The manager, at least we have to thank him for not boring us. Other directors with this type of movies, they are very bored. He does not know how to make plans and many times he rolls it in a general way, which cools the situation and uses ellipsis halfway.Within the bad, the movie can be seen
sanderson154 A very cleverly written and edited film that ties in the stories of different people, generations and nationalities, a lonely retired Turkish immigrant in Germany meets a prostitute from his home country which begins an interesting (to say the least) chain of events, I won't ruin it by giving away too much of the script but unintentional death plays a large part as does forgiveness, incredibly the characters don't realise how 'connected' they actually are throughout the film which is divided into three parts, the occasional 'flashback' moment adds rather than detracts from the pacing and the storyline holds your interest at all times, absolutely no filler moments or scenes in this one.
elasmarhadi This is one of my favorite movies of all time. "Fatih Akin" succeeded to mix different characters and stories and even cultures to create a superb film that will make you admire the subtle crossroad of the stories evoked in such great dexterity. This movie deals with love, hope and freedom in a unique and clever way - not in a shallow "deja-vu" way.Although there's many different characters, these pieces of the story create a single magnificent puzzle of emotions and stories- one could call it fate. Akin will keep you mesmerized during all the movie with a great cast that radiate energy and truthfulness. you'll certainly be attached to all of them and to all of their stories. The script is very well written and elaborated along with a remarkable cinematography. But what makes you truly fall in love with this movie is for sure the ending. A creative and well thought ending that will not bring much to the story but at the same time will make it so rich and unforgettable. It will keep the story running in your mind and make you wonder about how every meeting with someone, is a crossroad - or even a turning point in your life. I've said earlier that this movie is about love, hope and freedom, but what really this movie is about life - or it is the same thing, isn't it?
Sindre Kaspersen German screenwriter, producer and director F Akin's fifth feature film which he wrote and co-produced with Andreas Thiel, Jeanette Würl and Klaus Maeck, is the second part of a planned trilogy called "Love, death and the devil" which was preceded by "Head-On" (2004). It premiered In competition at the sixtieth Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and is a Germany-Italy-Turkey co-production which was shot on location in Hamburg and Bremen in Germany, in Taksim and Kadiköy in Istanbul and at the Black Sea in Trabzon in Turkey. It tells the story about Ali Aksu, a widowed and retired Turkish immigrant who lives in Bremen. One day Ali meets a Turkish prostitute named Yeter whom he grows affectionate about. Ali is looking for a partner and offers Yeter to pay her the same amount that she earns working at the brothel if she comes to live with him. Yeter agrees and moves in with Ali, but after having met his German son, a professor who lives in Hamburg, Yeter gets into an argument with Ali that leads to him being sent to jail and his son traveling to Istanbul in order to find Yeter's 27-year-old daughter Ayten whom he thinks is a student. Acutely and engagingly directed by filmmaker F Akin, this humane and compassionately narrated fictional tale which is set in Germany and Turkey during the early 21st century, draws an incisive portrayal of a young Turkish woman who is searching for her mother, the relationship between a German professor and his father and the relationship between a German student and her mother. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, the fine production design by art director Sirma Bradley and production designer Tamo Kunz, cinematography by Swiss cinematographer Rainer Klausmann and editing by English-born film editor Andrew Bird, this humorous, tragic and romantic story depicts several studies of character and examines themes like family relations, cultural clash, forgiveness, death and love. This universal, character-driven and finely tuned European film which has the lives of six characters intertwining, contains a fine score by German DJ Shantel and is impelled and reinforced by it's fragmented narrative structure and the empathic and involving acting performances by Turkish actor, playwright and producer Tuncel Kurtiz, Turkish-German actor Baki Davrak, Turkish stage and film actress Nurgül Yesilcay, Turkish-born German actress Nursel Köse and German actress and singer Hanna Schygulla. A multifaceted and invariably moving drama which gained, among numerous other awards, the award for Best Screenplay at the sixtieth Cannes Film Festival in 2007, the European Film Award for European Screenwriter at the 20th European Film Awards in 2007 and the NSFC Award for Best Supporting actress Hanna Schygulla at the 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards in 2009.