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Released
2007 · FILM

The Edge of Heaven

When six German‑Turkish strangers in modern Berlin grapple with love, loss and hidden histories, their intersecting lives compel each of them to confront the past and seize a fragile chance at redemption.

Directed by
Fatih Akin
Written by
Fatih Akin
Runtime
122 min
Language
DE
Drama

Synopsis

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants intersect through various circumstances: an elderly man and a sex worker form a partnership, a young academic comes to terms with his past, two young women develop a romantic relationship, and a mother works to rebuild her broken life.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Andrew BirdShot by Rainer KlausmannScored by ShantelDesigned by Tamo Kunz

Box Office

2007 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$17.8M

Budget$3.8M
Worldwide gross$17.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Auf der anderen Seitede
  • The Edge of Heavende
  • Yasamin kiyisindade
  • The Edge of Heavenen
  • De l'autre côtéfr
  • Ai confini del paradisoit

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