HEAD ON: The Films of Fatih Akin
PLEASE NOTE: date and time of this screening has changed. THE CUT will now screen as part of an extended DOUBLE FEATURE program on Wednesday, January 31 2018.
This program begins WE FORGOT TO RETURN at 7:00 pm, followed by THE CUT at approximately 8:15 pm.
RSVP allows admission to both films.
Germany/France/Italy/Poland/Russia 2013/2014, 139 min., English, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and Spanish with English Subtitles
Writer-Director: Fatih Akin, Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann, Editor: Andrew Bird, Music: Alexander Hacke, Producers: Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Nurhan Sekerci, Flaminio Zadra, Starring: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram J. Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan, Bartu Kücükcaglayan
1915: Armenian blacksmith Nazaret Manoogian (Rahim) lives in Mardin, north-eastern Mesopotamia, with his wife Rakel (Zahra) and their twin daughters Arsinée and Lucinée (Zein and Dina Fakhoury). During the First World War, the political winds turn and the minorities of the Ottoman Empire suddenly acquire enemy status. One night, Turkish gendarmes arrest Nazaret, his brother Hrant (Gazi), and their brother-in-law Vahan (Georgiou), leaving behind Nazaret’s wife and daughters.
Separated from his family, Nazaret is forced to toil in the desert as a forced laborer, where he survives an execution squad and flees. Assisted by various deserters, refugees and others, Nazaret surivives, experiencing the end of the First World War in Aleppo, Syria. Learning that his daughters have also survived, Nazaret sets out on a quest to search for the girls that will lead him from the Mesopotamian deserts, across the ocean to Havana, Cuba and finally to the barren prairies of North Dakota.
Director Martin Scorcese describes THE CUT as
“...a genuine, hand-made epic, of the type that people just don’t make anymore. In other words, a deeply personal response to a tragic historical episode, that has great intensity, beauty and sweeping grandeur. This picture is very precious to me, on many levels.”
Presented as part of an 7 film series HEAD ON: The Films of Fatih Akin
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS:
Sofia International Film Festival 2015
Audience Award: Best Film
Hamburg Film Festival 2014
Douglas-Sirk-Award
Venice Film Festival 2014
Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award: Fatih Akin
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