THE CUT
by Fatih Akin
synopsis
Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police rounds up all the Armenian men in the city, including the young blacksmith, Nazaret Manoogian, who is separated from his family. Years later, after managing to survive the horrors of the genocide, he hears that his two daughters are also still alive. He becomes fixated on the idea of finding them and sets off to track them down. His search takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts and Havana to the barren and desolate prairies of North Dakota. On this odyssey, he encounters a range of very different people: angelic and kind-hearted characters, but also the devil incarnate.
international title: | The Cut |
original title: | The Cut |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Fatih Akin |
film run: | 138' |
release date: | DE 16/10/2014, NL 04/12/2014, FR 14/01/2015, IT 05/04/2015, BE 3/06/2015 |
screenplay: | Fatih Akin, Mardik Martin |
cast: | Tahar Rahim, George Georgiou, Makram Khoury, Akin Gazi, Lara Heller, Numan Acar, Dustin MacDougall |
cinematography by: | Rainer Klausmann |
film editing: | Andrew Bird |
art director: | Frank Bollinger, Charlo Dalli |
producer: | Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Fabienne Vonier |
production: | Bombero International, Pandora Filmproduktion, Corazón International, Pyramide Productions |
backing: | Filmförderung HSH, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Nordmedia, Medienboard BB, FFA, BKM, DFFF, Eurimages |
distributor: | Pandora Film Distribution, Cinéart Netherlands B.V., Pyramide Distribution, Cinéart |