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The Cut

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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.

Source: German  Films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Fatih Akin

Screenplay

  • Fatih Akin

Director of photography

  • Rainer Klausmann

Editing

  • Andrew Bird

Music

  • Alexander Hacke

Cast

  • Tahar Rahim
    Nazaret Manoogian
  • Simon Abkarian
    Krikor
  • Makram J. Khoury
    Omar Nasreddin
  • Hindi Zahra
    Rakel
  • Kevork Malikyan
    Hagob Nakashia
  • Bartu Küçükçaglayan
    Mehmet
  • Trine Dyrholm
    Leiterin des Waisenhauses
  • Arsinée Khanjian
    Frau Nakashian
  • Moritz Bleibtreu
    Peter Edelman
  • Numan Acar
    Alpasan

Production company

  • Bombero International GmbH & Co KG i.G. (Hamburg)

Producer

  • Fatih Akin
  • Karl Baumgartner
  • Reinhard Brundig
  • Nurhan Şekerci-Porst
  • Flaminio Zadra

Alle Credits

Director

  • Fatih Akin

Assistant director

  • Ralph Remstedt

Co-Autor

  • Mardik Martin

Screenplay

  • Fatih Akin

Director of photography

  • Rainer Klausmann

Camera operator

  • Donat Schilling

Assistant camera

  • Astrid Miegel

Lighting design

  • Torsten Lemke

Key grip

  • Carsten Scharrmann

Production design

  • Allan Starski

Property master

  • Jan Rott

Stand-by props

  • Tamo Kunz

Make-up artist

  • Waldemar Pokromski
  • Karen Schembri Grima
  • Sabine Schumann

Costume design

  • Katrin Aschendorf

Editing

  • Andrew Bird

Assistant editor

  • Julia Drache

Sound design

  • Malte Bieler

Sound

  • Jean-Paul Mugel

Foley artist

  • Hanse Warns

Audio mixing

  • Matthias Schmidt (Assistenz)

Stunt co-ordinator

  • Ronnie Paul

Casting

  • Beatrice Kruger

Music

  • Alexander Hacke

Cast

  • Tahar Rahim
    Nazaret Manoogian
  • Simon Abkarian
    Krikor
  • Makram J. Khoury
    Omar Nasreddin
  • Hindi Zahra
    Rakel
  • Kevork Malikyan
    Hagob Nakashia
  • Bartu Küçükçaglayan
    Mehmet
  • Trine Dyrholm
    Leiterin des Waisenhauses
  • Arsinée Khanjian
    Frau Nakashian
  • Moritz Bleibtreu
    Peter Edelman
  • Numan Acar
    Alpasan
  • Badasar Calbiyik
    Armen
  • Yasar Çetin
    Türkischer Gendarm
  • Katerina Poladjan
    Magdalena
  • Michael S. Ruscheinsky
    Henry
  • Georgios Georgiou
    Vahan
  • Lara Heller
    Lucine
  • Anna Savva
    Mrs. Krikorian
  • Shubham Saraf
    Levon
  • Arevik Martirosyan
    Ani
  • Joel Jackshaw
    Tom
  • Aida Adele Golghazi
    Emigrantin
  • Sesede Terziyan
    Frau
  • Korkmaz Arslan
    Leader
  • Sevan Stephan
    Baron Boghos
  • Dustin MacDougall
  • Alejandro Rae

Production company

  • Bombero International GmbH & Co KG i.G. (Hamburg)

in co-production with

  • Pyramide Productions S.A. (Paris)
  • Pandora Film Produktion GmbH (Köln)
  • Corazón International GmbH & Co. KG (Hamburg)
  • Degeto Film GmbH (Frankfurt am Main)
  • Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) (Hamburg)
  • France 3 Cinéma S.A. (Paris)
  • Dorje Film (Rom)
  • Bim Distribuzione S.r.l. (Rom)
  • Mars Media Entertainment (Moskau)
  • Opus Film (Łódź)
  • Anadolu Kültür (Istanbul)

in association with

  • Canal + (Paris)
  • Cine+ Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)
  • France Télévisions (Paris)

Producer

  • Fatih Akin
  • Karl Baumgartner
  • Reinhard Brundig
  • Nurhan Şekerci-Porst
  • Flaminio Zadra

Co-Producer

  • Fabienne Vonier
  • Francis Boespflug
  • Alberto Fanni
  • Valerio de Paolis
  • Aram Movsesyan
  • Ruben Dišdišjan
  • Laurette Bourassa
  • Doug Steeden
  • Piotr Dzięcioł
  • Ewa Puszczyńska

Producer (TV)

  • Christian Granderath

Executive producer

  • Stéphane Parthenay

Line producer

  • Marcus Loges

Associate producer

  • Ali Akdeniz
  • Ali Betil

Unit production manager

  • Fuad Khalil

Original distributor

  • Pandora Film GmbH & Co. Verleih KG (Aschaffenburg)

Funding

  • Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (FFHSH) (Hamburg)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH (Hannover/Bremen)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • FFA-Minitraité (Paris)
  • Ministère de la Coopération de la Culture et de la Communication C.N.C. (Paris)
  • Malta Film Commission (Valetta)
  • Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (Warschau)
  • Alberta Multimedia Development Fund (Edmonton)
  • Media Programm der EU (Brüssel)
  • Eurimages (Straßburg)

Shoot

    • From 01.03.2013
Duration:
139 min
Format:
35mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 02.09.2014, 146840, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (IT): 31.08.2014, Venedig, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 27.09.2014, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 16.10.2014

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE FR) The Cut

Versions

Original

Duration:
139 min
Format:
35mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 02.09.2014, 146840, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (IT): 31.08.2014, Venedig, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 27.09.2014, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 16.10.2014

Awards

Filmfest Hamburg 2014
  • Douglas-Sirk-Preis

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