The Edge of Heaven

The Edge of Heaven

2007•2h 2m•7.2/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.2/10(347)

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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Production

Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Anka Film, Dorje Film, FilmFörderung Hamburg, NDR, Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein, nordmedia

Language

DE

Status

Released

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Cast

Nurgül Yeşilçay

Nurgül Yeşilçay

Ayten Öztürk

Baki Davrak

Baki Davrak

Nejat Aksu

Patrycia Ziolkowska

Patrycia Ziolkowska

Lotte Staub

Tuncel Kurtiz

Tuncel Kurtiz

Ali Aksu

Nursel Köse

Nursel Köse

Yeter Öztürk

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

Susanne Staub

Erkan Can

Erkan Can

Cousin Ufuk

Nejat İşler

Nejat İşler

Commissioner

Güven Kıraç

Güven Kıraç

Security Guard

Lars Rudolph

Lars Rudolph

Mr. Obermüller

İdil Üner

İdil Üner

Ärztin

Turgay Tanülkü

Turgay Tanülkü

Cem

Gökhan Kıraç

Gökhan Kıraç

Young Police Officer

Gürsoy Gemec

Gas Station Owner's Son

Cengiz Daner

Cengiz Daner

Gas Station Owner

Elcim Eroglu

Elcim

Nurten Güner

Nurten

Asuman Altinay

Türkan

Ali Akdeniz

Plainclothes Police

Nadire Irtel

Woman in the Stairwell

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