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courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Venice
71: Film Festival – The Cut – Fatih Akin. Fatih Akin’s The Cut stars Tahar Rahim,
Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian and George Georgiou. Armenian
man, Nazareth Manoogian, after surviving the genocide learns that his twin
daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them. This takes him from
his village Mardin to Mesopotamian deserts, Havana and finally North Dakota. “The
Cut is an epic film, a drama, an adventure movie and a western all rolled into
one. The film may be set a hundred years ago, but it could not be more topical:
it tells a tale of war and displacement, as well as portraying the power of
love and hope, which enables us to achieve the unimaginable. The Cut is the
conclusion of the Love, Death and the Devil trilogy. It explores the theme of
“the devil,” examining evil and the harm we are capable of inflicting on others—both
unwittingly and deliberately—showing the fine line that often separates good
from evil. The Cut has become a very personal film. Thematically, it explores
my conscience and formally it expresses my passion for the medium of film.” The
director Fatih Akin states.
Above. The director Fatih Akin.
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courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
The Cut