Auf der anderen Seite (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Fatih Akin

Guionista:

Fatih Akin (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 septiembre 2007 (Alemania)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

Plot Keywords:

Turkey | Istanbul | Germany | Death | Prostitute

Premios:

20 wins & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Complex and thought-provoking

Reparto

Nurgül Yesilçay	...	Ayten Öztürk aka Gül
Baki Davrak	...	Nejat Aksu
Tuncel Kurtiz	...	Ali Aksu
Hanna Schygulla	...	Susanne Staub
Patrycia Ziolkowska	...	Charlotte 'Lotte' Staub
Nursel Köse	...	Yeter aka Jessy
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Erkan Can	...	Nejat's Cousin
Yusuf Kaba	...	Flute player
Yelda Reynaud	...	Emine
Lars Rudolph	...	Markus Obermüller
Andreas Thiel	...	Konsulatsmitarbeiter
Idil Üner	...	Pregnant doctor (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Fatih Akin

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Fatih Akin		writer

Producida por
Ali Akdeniz	....	co-producer
Fatih Akin	....	producer
Paolo Colombo	....	co-producer
Alberto Fanni	....	co-producer
Nevra Koçoglu	....	supervising producer
Klaus Maeck	....	producer
Funda Odemis	....	co-producer
Erhan Ozogul	....	co-producer
Christian Springer	....	line producer
Andreas Thiel	....	producer
Jeanette Würl	....	producer
Flaminio Zadra	....	associate producer

Música original por
Shantel

Fotografía por
Rainer Klausmann

Montaje por
Andrew Bird

Casting
Monique Akin

Diseño de producción por
Sirma Bradley
Tamo Kunz

Dirección artística
Seth Turner

Diseño de vestuario por
Katrin Aschendorf

Departamento de maquillaje
Maike Heinlein	....	makeup artist
Mediha Safak	....	makeup artist
Daniel Schröder	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Tolga Dundar	....	assistant production manager
Aksel Kamber	....	production manager
Tina Mersmann	....	post-production supervisor

Ayudante de dirección
Surk-Ki Schrade	....	assistant director
Seren Yüce	....	first assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Jan Feil	....	property master: inside
Elif Tasçioglu	....	property master

Departamento de sonido
Ahmt Sut Alban	....	sound
Richard Borowski	....	sound re-recording mixer
Andreas Hildebrandt	....	sound designer
Jörg Krieger	....	sound designer
Martin Langenbach	....	foley artist
Kai Lüde	....	sound mixer
Jörn Martens	....	boom operator

Efectos especiales
Peter Wiemker	....	special effects

Visual Effects
Philipp Eckel	....	film recording
Birk Ewert	....	2D graphic artist
Michael Krämer	....	digital compositor
Philipp Schneider	....	visual effects editor
Christoph Schröer	....	lead digital compositor
Matthias Schulze-Kirketerp	....	digital colorist
Alex Brommer	....	digital compositor (uncredited)

Especialistas
Ali Haznebar	....	stunt performer

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Julien Aksoy	....	third assistant camera: Istanbul
Gokhan Atilmis	....	director of photography: Istanbul
Emre Basaran	....	focus puller: second unit
Faruk Belbidi	....	dolly grip
Kuray Benirtray	....	lighting technician
Matthias Bode	....	grip assistant
Ethem Dag	....	second assistant camera: Istanbul
Julia Drache	....	second assistant camera
Özgür Eken	....	first assistant camera: Istanbul
Torsten Lemke	....	lighting design
Astrid Miegel	....	first assistant camera
Olcay Oguz	....	camera operator: second unit
Carsten Scharrmann	....	key grip
Kerstin Stelter	....	still photographer

Departamento de vestuario
Chandra Liebetanz	....	wardrobe assistant
Ceylan Senbark	....	wardrobe assistant

Departamento de Edición
Ursina Merkt	....	post-production assistant
Marcus Ott	....	supporting editor

Departamento de Música
Klaus Maeck	....	music supervisor

Otros miembros del equipo
Ayse Barim	....	production consultant
Can Bemir	....	office runner: Turkey
Emre Cosar	....	production accountant
Agnès Leroy	....	press attachée: France
Margaret Metz	....	production coordinator
Céline Petit	....	press attachée: France

Gracias
Andreas Thiel	....	in memory of

Compañías Productores

• Anka Film
• BKM (funding)
• Dorje Film
• Filmförderung Hamburg (funding)
• Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (funding)
• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (funding)
• Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein (funding)
• Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
• nordmedia Fonds GmbH (funding)

Distribuidores

• First Distributors (2007) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Alfa Films (2009) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Artificial Eye (2007) (UK) (theatrical)
• Bitters End (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Cineworx (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Folkets Bio (2007) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Medyavizyon (2007) (Turkey) (theatrical)
• Noble Entertainment (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Pandora Filmproduktion (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Pyramide Distribution (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Rosebud (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Sharmill Distributors (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Strand Releasing (2008) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)

Otras Compañías

• Corazón International  publicity
• Mama Filmcatering  catering

También conocida como:

Ai confini del paradiso (Italy)
On the Other Side (International: English title) (literal title)
The Edge of Heaven (International: English title)
Yasamin kiyisinda (Turkey: Turkish title)
Al otro lado (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

122 min

País:

Alemania | Turkey | Italy

Idioma:

Alemán | Turco | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital EX

Clasificación:

Germany:12 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Australia:M | UK:15 (re-rating on appeal) | UK:18 (original rating) | France:Unrated | Sweden:15 | Ireland:15A (re-rating on appeal) | Ireland:16 (original rating) | Taiwan:PG-12 | Finland:K-11 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | Japan:PG-12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bremen, Germany

Compañía:

Anka Film

Trivialidades:

Shot in 44 days.

Errores:

Continuidad: When the Lotte is driving through Bremen, she passes a bus in which Jeter (Jessy) and Baki were sitting after visiting Baki's father in the hospital. The first time we see them sitting in the bus, they are sitting together in the same seat. When Lotte passes the bus, they are sitting opposite of each other.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "At the Movies: Summer Special 2008/09" (2008)

Banda de Sonido:

Sahara Blues

Complex and thought-provoking

"The Edge of Heaven", original title "On the other side", takes up a number of ideas from Faith Akin's previous film. But it takes them also in a new unexpected direction - with a political view (on Kurdish problem, on Europeans), with additional protagonist types - now the conflicted German Turks are joined by 'naive' Germans proper and 'seen-too-much' Turkish (Kurds) proper. All of the characters were very well constructed and, as representative types of their social groups, offered much material for the audience to reflect upon.

Indeed, a knowledgeable audience would find this film to be replete with commentary on our social and political reality, the Anatolian and the European, and on the respective preconceptions and stereotypes. Some of the commentary is tragic, some is ironic. Here, in Bulgaria, the audience laughed and applauded when the German granma said with all her conviction to the Kurdish girl that everything in her country will become alright because they are joining the EU. On the other hand, an émigré Kurdish audience will probably applaud a very moving and full of suspense depiction of the Kurdish struggle in Turkey, which is however frank both to Kurds and to the Turkish authorities. It included small cameos from the conflict that are openly publicised for the first time: for example the revolutionaries taken out of their hideout by the police announce their names to the street and the world, in apprehension of being disappeared by the authorities; minutes later the crowd of passer-bys claps to the departing police vans in a popular approval of the suppression of kurdish struggle.

Still, the myriad political and social problems are only a setting to a much more personal story. The opening of one's soul, the crossing of inner walls that separate us from those who love us. This story is repeated three times, in different context, for the three characters who remain alive to cross 'to the other side': the German mother who accepts her daughter's ideals, the German-Turkish son who forgives his father, the Kurdish girl who takes the love of her friends over her revolutionary commitment. However, the director allows no one of them to consume their redemption within the film's running time - their characters remain tragic.

It is a very powerful film. As a friend said after the screening, it tramples over you like a steam-roller. The emotional mix of the previous film "Head-on" had me cry, but crying releases the pain. This one doesn't let to release the tension even at the final scene. It will stay with you for days after.