Sep 27, 2007
122 min
Full-HD

The Edge of Heaven (2007)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Germany Turkey

Companies

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

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

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