Film
The Cut (Director: Regie: Fatih Akin, Color, 135 Min., 2013/14)

FILM SERIES: FLIGHT AND MIGRATION

Wed, 04/12/2017
6:30 PM Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium

Current social and political questions are presented in the form of documentaries and feature films. Key issues are: old and new home country, reasons for fleeing, integration.
All film screenings are in German with English subtitles if not otherwise stated. Admission is free.

PLOT:

1915: Blacksmith Nazaret Manogian, his wife and their twin-daughters enjoy a happy life until Turkish police arrest him - like many other Christians of Armenian origin. Separated from his family, he has to endure forced labor in the desert. He survives an execution command and flees. Deserters continue to help him; in a camp, he encounters his dying sister-in-law, later finds refuge in Aleppo and works with a Syrian soap producer, and there also experiences the end of the First World War.
The search for his family leads the father to Lebanon, Cuba and the USA.
With THE CUT, Fatih Akin has succeeded in creating a great but also controversial movie.