THE CUT
SYNOPSIS
Third part of the trilogy “Liebe, Tod und Teufel” /////////// 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.
DIRECTOR | Fatih Akin |
YEAR | 2014 |
STATUS | completed |
FESTIVALS AWARDS | Venice Competition 2014 |
CAST | Tahar Rahim with Simon Abkarian Makram J. Khoury Hindi Zahra Kevork Malikyan Bartu Küçükçağlayan Trine Dyrholm Moritz Bleibtreu Arsinée Khanjian Akin Gazi and Arévik Martirossian |
CO PRODUCTION WITH | bombero international presents in co-production with Pyramide Productions Pandora Film corazón international NDR/Hamburg & ARD Degeto France 3 Cinéma Dorje Film BIM Distribuzione Mars Media Entertainment Opus Film Jordan Films Anadolu Kültür |
SUPPORTED BY | Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein DFFF-German Federal Film Fund FFA-German Federal Film Board Film- und Medienstiftung NRW Nordmedia Eurimages Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg BKM MEDIA Polish Film Institute Government of Alberta Canada Tax Credit Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (CNC) Malta Film Commission /////////// with the participation of Canal+ France Télévisions Ciné+ |
WORLD SALES | The Match Factory |
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih |
LENGTH | 138 min. |
FORMAT | DCP/35mm cinemascope colour Dolby Digital |
SHOOTING LOCATION | Germany (Studio Cologne Hamburg Berlin) Cuba Canada Jordan Malta |
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | English, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Spanish |
PRODUCERS | produced by Fatih Akin Karl Baumgartner Reinhard Brundig /////////// Fabienne Vonier Francis Boespflug Alberto Fanni Valerio de Paolis Ruben Dishdishyan Aram Movsesyan Laurette Bourassa Doug Steeden Piotr Dzieciol Ewa Puszczynska (co-producers) Nurhan Şekerci-Porst Flaminio Zadra (executive producers) Stéphane Parthenay (co-executive producer) Ali Akdeniz Ali Betil (associate producers) |
WRITERS | Fatih Akin (writer) Mardik Martin (co-writer) |
CASTING | Beatrice Kruger |
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Rainer Klausmann |
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Marcus Loges (line producer) |
EDITING | Andrew Bird |
MUSIC | Alexander Hacke |
SOUND | Richard Borowski (re-recording mixer) original sound (Jean-Paul Mugel) Kai Storck (sound supervisor) |
ART DIRECTION | Allan Starski |
COSTUMES | Katrin Aschendorf |
MAKE UP HAIR | Waldemar Pokromski (key make-up artist) |
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | n/s |
DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | n/s |
LINKS | www.pandorafilm.de |