The Cut

Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police round up all the Armenian men in the city, including the young blacksmith, Nazaret Manoogian, who becomes 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.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Fatih Akin,Mardik Martin
Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann
Editing: Andrew Bird
Sound: Jean-Paul Mugel
Music: Alexander Hacke
Actors: Tahar Rahim (Nazaret Manoogian), Sevan Stephan(Baron Boghos), Shubham Saraf (Levon), Arevik Martirossian (Ani),Hatun Kazci (Delal), Bartu Kucukcaglayan (Mehmet)
Production: Bombero International, Germany
Producers: Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Nurhan Sekerci-Porst, Flaminio Zadra
Co-production: Pyramide Productions (France) & Pandora Film (Germany), Corazon International (Germany), NDR (Germany), ARD Degeto (Germany), France 3 Cinema (France), Dorje Film (Italy), BIM Distribuzione (Italy), M
Costumes: Katrin Aschendorf
Production Design: Allan Starski
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: Germany-France-Italy-The Netherlands-Poland-Canada-Turkey
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 138
Contact: The Match Factory, GermanyT. +49 30 443 190 520F. +49 30 443 190 530info@matchfactory.dewww.the-match-factory.com

Fatih Akin

A screenwriter, director and producer, he was born in 1973 in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Turkish immigrants. He studied at the University of Fine Arts. After making two short films, he achieved his breakthrough in 1998 with his debut feature Short Sharp Shock. His international success came with the melodrama Head-On, for which he won the Golden Bear, the German Film and the European Film Awards. He documented the diversity of the Istanbul music scene in Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul. His next feature film The Edge of Heaven won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes 2007. The Cut is the final film in his trilogy about “love, death and the devil,” following Head-On and The Edge of Heaven.

Filmography

(selected)
1998 Kurz und Schmerzlos /Short Sharp Shock
2000 Im Juli /In July
2004 Gegen die Wand/Head-On
2006 Crossing the Bridge/The Sound of Istanbul
2007 Auf der anderen Seite/The Edge of Heaven
2009 Soul Kitchen
2012 Der Mull im Garten Eden/Polluting Paradise
2014 The Cut