Tea-inflected movie

Jun 02, 2008 Last reply: 18 years ago 4 Replies

I just saw the Turkish/German film which has recently opened in the USA as _The Edge of Heaven_ (original title _Auf der anderen Seite_.) It isn't *about* tea, to be honest, but it's the best movie I've seen in quite a while. To me it seems pretty close to perfect.



Here's the on-topic part: You see a people drinking tea in little Turkish glasses a few times and, near the end, there's a glimpse of a woman actually picking tea leaves on a hillside, though the latter isn't even mentioned in the dialogue.



/Lew


Just one observation from many visits to the Black Sea tea growing area - if the woman was hand picking leaf it was posed - true hand plucking disappeared many years ago - if she was using harvesting shears (like hedge clipping shears but with a collecting box attached to one blade) then she just happened to be in shot.

Nigel at Teacraft

are they posting pics from the WTE anywhere or do we have to wait for it to finish?

Show finished yesterday and if last year is a guide I expect they will put pictures on site

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within days.

Incidentally

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is a rapidly improving information point and resource for those with a commercial foot in the tea world.

Nigel at Teacraft

It wasn't a box that was connected to the shears; more of a cloth bag, it seemed. She actually had a line of dialogue, by the way. It was supposedly near Trabzond.

/Lew

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