THE CUT

Fiction, 138 min, Germany / France / Poland / Turkey / Canada / Russia / Italy

Written by

Fatih Akin, Mardik Martin

Directed by

Fatih Akin

Cast

Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram J. Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan, Bartu Küçükçağlayan, Zein and Dina Fakhoury, Trine Dyrholm, Arsinée Khanjian, Akin Gazi, Shubham Saraf, George Georgiou, Arévik Martirossian, Lara Heller, Moritz Bleibtreu

Original language

English, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Spanish

Genre

Drama

SYNOPSIS

Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police round 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 daugthers 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.

Crew

Direction Fatih Akin Screenplay Fatih Akin, Mardik Martin Producer Fatih Akin Co-producers Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Fabienne Vonier, Francis Boespflug, Alberto Fanni, Valerio De Paolis, Ruben Dishdishyan, Aram Movsesyan, Laurette Bourassa, Doug Steeden, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczyńska Executive Producers Nurhan Sekerci-porst, Flaminio Zadra Commissioning Editor for Ndr Christian Granderath Production Manager Marcus Loges Cinematography Rainer Klausmann (Bvk) Editing Andrew Bird Production Design Allan Starski Assistant Director Ralph Remstedt Casting Beatrice Kruger Costume Design katrin Aschendorf Make-up Waldemar Pokromski Music Alexander Hacke Sound Jean-paul Mugel

Production

Bombero International (Germany), Pandora Film Produktion (Germany), Dorje Film (Italy) Pyramide Productions (France), Opus Film (Poland), NDR (Germany), Corazón international (Germany), Mars Media Entertainment (Russia), Jordan Films (Jordania)

Supported by

France 3 Cinéma, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen, Eurimages, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, FFA Minitraité, MEDIA Programme of the European Union -i2i Audiovisual, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée), Government of Alberta, Alberta Multimedia Development Fund, Polish Film Institute, The Government of Malta, Malta Film Commission, The Royal Film Commission Jordan

Italian Distributor

∞ BIM Distribution

International Sales

∞ The Match Factory