The Cut (2014)
(Kesik)
Country: GER/FR/IT/RUS/POL/CAN/TUR/JOR
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Lara Heller
Synopsis:
An Armenian blacksmith is separated from his family when the Turks take him for forced labour in 1915. He survives the genocide and is taken in by a soap merchant in Aleppo, where he learns that his daughters are still alive.
Review:
While unhappily adopting English as its lingua franca, this multi-national production benefits from lavish locations and is certainly staged with conviction. The visualisation of the genocide is mercifully allusive, but this is still one of the most powerful films on the Armenian diaspora, with a very physical performance from Rahim.
(Kesik)
Country: GER/FR/IT/RUS/POL/CAN/TUR/JOR
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Lara Heller
Synopsis:
An Armenian blacksmith is separated from his family when the Turks take him for forced labour in 1915. He survives the genocide and is taken in by a soap merchant in Aleppo, where he learns that his daughters are still alive.
Review:
While unhappily adopting English as its lingua franca, this multi-national production benefits from lavish locations and is certainly staged with conviction. The visualisation of the genocide is mercifully allusive, but this is still one of the most powerful films on the Armenian diaspora, with a very physical performance from Rahim.
(Kesik)
Country: GER/FR/IT/RUS/POL/CAN/TUR/JOR
Technical: col/2.35:1 138m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Lara Heller
Synopsis:
An Armenian blacksmith is separated from his family when the Turks take him for forced labour in 1915. He survives the genocide and is taken in by a soap merchant in Aleppo, where he learns that his daughters are still alive.
Review:
While unhappily adopting English as its lingua franca, this multi-national production benefits from lavish locations and is certainly staged with conviction. The visualisation of the genocide is mercifully allusive, but this is still one of the most powerful films on the Armenian diaspora, with a very physical performance from Rahim.