The Edge of Heaven

7.2(356)20072h 2m

Drama

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.

Director

Fatih Akin

Budget

$3.8M

Revenue

$17.8M

Cast

Nurgül Yeşilçay

Ayten Öztürk

Baki Davrak

Nejat Aksu

Patrycia Ziolkowska

Lotte Staub

Tuncel Kurtiz

Ali Aksu

Nursel Köse

Yeter Öztürk

Hanna Schygulla

Susanne Staub

Erkan Can

Cousin Ufuk

Nejat İşler

Commissioner

Güven Kıraç

Security Guard

Lars Rudolph

Mr. Obermüller

İdil Üner

Ärztin

Turgay Tanülkü

Cem

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Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

1mo ago

7.0

This is quite a powerful full-circle drama that starts with a young but uninspired college professor “Nejat” (Baki Davrak) who disapproves of his widowed father (Tuncel Kurtis) inviting his prostitute friend to be his live-in lover. “Yeter” (Nursel Köse) isn’t just on the game for drugs and her pimp, she is determined that her daughter back home in Turkey will get the education she was denied and ...