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      • The film received positive reviews from Western critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10.
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  1. What it's about. 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.

    • Ali Akdeniz
    • Fatih Akin
  2. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Evocative and complex, this story of struggling immigrants in Germany will stay with you after you leave the theater." [4]

  3. 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...

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    • Nurgül Yesilçay
    • Fatih Akin
    • Drama
  4. Jun 12, 2008 · Reviews. 3 parents, 2 daughters, 1 son. 122 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2008. Roger Ebert. June 12, 2008. 5 min read. Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) hides his prostitute, Yeter (Mursel Kose), from a group of Turkish men who threaten to kill her in "The Edge of Heaven."

  5. The Edge of Heaven: Directed by Fatih Akin. With Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Cengiz Daner, Tuncel Kurtiz. A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

    • (34K)
    • Drama
    • Fatih Akin
    • 2007-09-27
  6. The Edge of Heaven won Akin the award for best screenplay at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Whether this was a consolation prize for not getting the Palme d’Or, or whether the script did genuinely impress the jury, remains a matter of speculation.

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  8. Feb 18, 2008 · The power of co-incidence is explored to dramatic effect in The Edge Of Heaven, a Turkish-German production about two deaths that bring strangers together.