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THE EDGE
OF HEAVEN

Six people, six biographies, six lives are fatefully intertwined, taking them on a perilous journey to their own true selves, without the two sets of protagonists ever meeting.

It is only the death of one figure from each strand that brings their fates together, inescapably linked from the very beginning. Starring Nurgül Yesilçay, Hanna Schygulla, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse and Tunçel Kurtiz.

CAST

NURGÜL YEŞILÇAY
BAKI DAVRAK
PATRYCIA ZIOLKOWSKA
NURSEL KÖSE
TUNCEL KURTIZ
AND
HANNA SCHYGULLA

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
RAINER KLAUSMANN (BVK)

PRODUCTION DESIGN
TAMO KUNZ, SIRMA BRADLEY

COSTUMES KATRIN ASCHENDORF
MAKE-UP DANIEL SCHRÖDER
CASTING MONIQUE AKIN
SOUND KAI LÜDE
EDITOR ANDREW BIRD
SOUND MIX RICHARD BOROWSKI
MUSIC SHANTEL
PRODUCTION CONSULTANT AYSE BARIM
LINE PRODUCER CHRISTIAN SPRINGER
COMMISSIONING EDITOR JEANETTE WÜRLPRODUCERS ANDREAS THIEL, KLAUS MAECK

STORY

Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

CO-PRODUCERS ALİ AKDENİZ, ERHAN ÖZOĞUL, FUNDA ÖDEMIŞ
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS ALBERTO FANNI, FLAMINIO ZADRA, PAOLO COLOMBO
PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY FATIH AKIN