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Ali Aksu (Tuncel Kurtiz) takes a Turkish prostitute, Yeter (Nursel Köse), into his German apartment to protect her in spite of his disapproving son, Nejat (Baki Davrak). When Yeter dies in an altercation with Ali, Nejat goes to find her daughter in Istanbul. Ayten, Yeter's daughter, escapes from Turkey when her political activism threatens her life. In Germany, she falls for a girl, Lotte (Patrycia Ziolkowska), who follows her to Istanbul when she is deported.
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Fatih Akin
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Producer: Fatih Akin, Klaus Maeck, Andreas Thiel
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Writer: Fatih Akin
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $741.3K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Strand
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Production Co: Corazón International, Anka Film
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A number of people started comparing The Edge of Heaven to Babel/Crash and other vertebrate type storylines alike. And even though there is a structural resemblance, the director Akin, a prodigy of immigration himself, makes a movie oozing nostalgia for home; in one thread home is the love of one's life, in another it is the country of origin, in the other one the bosom of a woman, and in another belonging to a cause. Notable mention should be made to the exceptional editing which invariably adds irony and suspense.
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Like <i>Amores Perros</i>, <i>The Edge of Heaven</i> tells three stories that are connected. The first two are pretty much independent from each other, while the third one is kind of the result of those two stories. They both had enough material to make more than one movies, and the final result is a film that isn't fleshed out enough in parts. Still, <i>The Edge of Heaven</i> explores interesting themes and looks beautiful.
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Quite a hard, full of irony and interesting story. The turns and folds of the story, as well as the social context and the emotinal injection, makes it shine like no other.
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There are three very good stories to tell here, but the problem is they each deserved their own movie because as it is none of them feel fully realized; the characters aren't so much developed as they just change according to what the plot needs. Nevertheless, it becomes more and more interesting as it goes along.
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