Akin's dual allegiance reflected in his movies

December 14, 2007 Fatih Akin is riding two horses as the Oscar race for best foreign-language feature rounds the far bend, heading to the Jan. 22 announcement of Academy Award nominations. For while Akin is director of "The Edge of Heaven," Germany's entry this year, he also is one of the producers of "Takva," Turkey's official submission. "Heaven," which Strand will release stateside, revolves around three family pairings -- a Turkish father and son, a German mother and daughter and a Turkish mother and daughter -- whose lives interact as the story shuttles between the two countries.

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