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The Edge of Heaven

TIFF.18 - 3x3

The Edge of Heaven TIFF.18

Category: 3x3
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Nurgül Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla
Duration: 122 min.
Country: Germany
Year: 2007

Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is now 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...

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