The Edge of Heaven
Production
Genre
Budget
$3 800 000
Box office
$17 804 565
Website
Director
Actors
Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Hanna Schygulla, Erkan Can, Nejat İşler, Güven Kıraç, Lars Rudolph
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Fatih Akin, Klaus Maeck, Andreas Thiel, Jeanette Würl, Ç. Duygu Bingöl
Camera operator
Rainer Klausmann
Composer
Artist
Tamo Kunz, Sirma Bradley, Tijen Çelik
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The roles of police officers were primarily filled by active law enforcement officers.
- Filming lasted 44 days.
- Originally, the film featured a storyline about Nejat meeting his old love, which rekindled their faded feelings, but it was cut to maintain the pace of the narrative.
- The role of Ali was specifically written for Tunsel Kurtis.
- According to Fatih Akin, the film's final scene, in which Nejat waits for Ali on the beach, is based on the last sentence of Alexandre Dumas père's (1802-1870) novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo' (1844-1846). 'My friend,' replied Valentine, 'did not the count tell us that all human wisdom is contained in two words: 'Wait and hope!''
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