Turkish Cinema
“The Cut” is a German film shot in Turkey; the film is set in Mardin in 1915. The main character is Nazaret who works in a blacksmith’s. One night the police go to his house to arrest every Armenian person there, so he is separated from his family.
After some months working on a road for the army, he is captured by bandits. Unfortunately, he becomes mute so he can´t talk for the rest of his life, but he succeeds in escaping. Finally he looks for his daughters and wife undergoing hard situations on the journey.
Genre: Drama, adventures.
Director: Fatih Akin.
Cast: Tahar Rahim, George Georgiou, Makram Khoury, Akin Gazi, Lara Heller, Numan Acar, Alejandro Rae, Dustin MacDougall, Shubham Saraf, Joel Jackshaw
Actor in the leading role: Tahar Rahim.
Awards:
-2014: Festival of Venice
-2014: Festival of Gijón
Pablo Vázquez Meizoso, IES Fene 1º Bac
The Cut (2014) by Fatih Akin