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27 September 2007 (Germany) morePlot:
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
21 wins & 9 nominations moreUser Comments:
Once every few years, a film this touching comes along more (35 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Nurgül Yesilçay | ... | Ayten Öztürk aka Gül | |
| Baki Davrak | ... | Nejat Aksu | |
| Tuncel Kurtiz | ... | Ali Aksu | |
| Hanna Schygulla | ... | Susanne Staub | |
| Patrycia Ziolkowska | ... | Charlotte 'Lotte' Staub | |
| Nursel Köse | ... | Yeter aka Jessy | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ali Akdeniz | ... | Plainclothes Policeman May 1 | |
| Aliye Alioglu | ... | Old woman in Camburnu | |
| Asuman Altinay | ... | Türkan | |
| Onder Cakar | ... | Riza Bey | |
| Erkan Can | ... | Nejat's Cousin | |
| Emre Cosar | ... | Cengiz | |
| Gengiz Daner | ... | Gas station owner | |
| Sevilay Demirci | ... | Nurhan | |
| Elcim Eroglu | ... | Elcim | |
| Gürsoy Gemec | ... | Son of gas station owner | |
| Cigdem Göymen | ... | Selen | |
| Nurten Güner | ... | Nurten | |
| Faik Hüzmeli | ... | Waiter Londra | |
| Ilhan Hüzmeli | ... | Waiter Londra | |
| Nadire Irtel | ... | Woman in staircase | |
| Nejat Isler | ... | Commissioner | |
| Jörg Jänicke | ... | ASB | |
| Ömer Kaar | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Salih Kaar | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Yusuf Kaba | ... | Flute player | |
| Sileyman Kaplan | ... | Arif (as Süleyman 'Sly' Kaplan) | |
| Gökhan Kirac | ... | Young Police Officer | |
| Güven Kiraç | ... | Security guard | |
| Feridun Koc | ... | Security guard | |
| Mert Koc | ... | Turkish street kid | |
| Öznur Kula | ... | Prisoner | |
| Sule Nayir | ... | Prison guard | |
| Stefanie Piehl | ... | Policewomen traffic check | |
| Yelda Reynaud | ... | Emine | |
| Lars Rudolph | ... | Markus Obermüller | |
| Turgay Tanülkü | ... | Cem | |
| Andreas Thiel | ... | Konsulatsmitarbeiter | |
| Gükce Isil Tuna | ... | Prisoner | |
| Annette Uhlen | ... | Judge | |
| Idil Üner | ... | Doctor | |
| Andreas Westphal | ... | Policeman traffic check | |
| Michael Wolf | ... | Border Official | |
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Also Known As:
The Edge of Heaven (International: English title) (UK) (USA)Ai confini del paradiso (Italy)
On the Other Side (International: English title) (literal title)
Yasamin kiyisinda (Turkey: Turkish title)
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122 minColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby Digital EXCertification:
Germany:12 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:M | UK:15 (re-rating on appeal) | UK:18 (original rating) | France:Unrated | Sweden:15 | Ireland:15A (re-rating on appeal) | Ireland:16 (original rating) | Taiwan:PG-12 | Finland:K-11 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | Japan:PG-12Fun Stuff
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Baki Davrak was cast very late into proceedings and subsequently missed Akin's standard three-week rehearsal period. To bring him up to speed, Akin took him on a trip to Turkey. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: In the film, the year is 2006 and it is the Festival of Sacrifices (Kurban Bayrami), a religious holiday. Everybody is in summer clothes and many of them are sweating. The Festival of Sacrifices in 2006 in Turkey was in winter, at the end of December. moreSoundtrack:
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I usually comment on films right after I've seen them. However, "Auf der anderen Seite" (The Edge of Heaven), touched me in a way that few films do, so a month has passed.
This story of two sets of mothers and daughters, a father and his son...and a gun seems familiar, but its resolution is anything but. To lay out the plot would be daunting. So much ground is covered, yet it unfolds effortlessly. F a t i h Akin's screenplay is elliptical--the story starts where it finishes--but by the end, when the opening scene is replayed, our journey with these characters puts us, indeed, on the edge of transcendence.
Amid the desperation on display, small details brim over the images: a son waters his father's tomato plants pausing to taste the ripened fruit, a mother pits cherries that stain her fingers, another manicures her nails to avoid a quarrel, we imagine a bookstore's--specifically a German language bookstore in Istanbul--smell and the safety it can bring to a foreigner.... These domestic details are set against much larger, although finally insignificant, struggles: the cultural divide of immigrants, students revolting against an oppressive government, how imprisonment can deaden the soul. But F a t i h Akin wants the basic struggles of family bonds to be central here. It's the resolution of family rifts--small and large, emotional and physical--that are urgent.
The choice of settings, music, lighting... all carefully selected to build toward one moment that catches us off guard. When a foreigner asks "What is Kurban Bayrami?" (a Turkish holiday) the many seemingly disparate elements that we've been watching--in good faith because they're so rivetingly told--suddenly come together, it almost knocked the breath out of me.
Whether or not we as viewers have lost a father or mother or a child, through death, physical separation or emotional turmoil, we can understand what these characters suffer. And how all that can be healedthe willingness to have faith that good intentions can mend this troubled worldis something like a miracle to find illustrated on film. The weapons these characters lay down to pursue goodness don't necessarily have the effect they intend, but as we watch lives torn apart and then healed we see what they don't. And we carry that lesson out of theater with us.