A German filmmaker of Turkish descent, Fatih Akin has made hybrid cultures and hyphenated identities his great subject. Head-On, his acclaimed breakthrough film from 2004, told a love story between ...

Divided into three chapters, the movie is populated by the homesick and the homeless. There’s Nejat (Baki Davrak), a professor of German literature in Hamburg, who returns to Turkey after his father ...

In 2004 Der Spiegel anointed director Fatih Akin the new face of the German film industry. Yet Akin is not of German descent, but Turkish, nor has he any interest in the ghosts of Germany’s past. He ...

Near the beginning of Fatih Akin’s captivating “The Edge of Heaven,” a lonely widower (Tuncel Kurtiz) trolls Bremen, Germany’s red-light district before settling on a middle-aged prostitute called ...

The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin’s intercontinental, cross-cultural ensemble piece a Best ...

Studio/Run Time: Strand Releasing, 116 mins. A nuanced and sobering study of exile, escape and familial responsibility In The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin draws from his own experiences as a German born ...

Born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, director Fatih Akin brought a rarely seen perspective to Head On (2004), about a marriage of convenience between a beautiful Turk and a suicidal German. In The Edge ...

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