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July 24 2014
Venice Trailer: Fatih Akin's 'The Cut' Starring Tahar Rahim Plus
Official Synopsis And First Images
Some slight waves were made earlier this year when Fatih Akin pulled
his forthcoming "The Cut" from the Cannes Film Festival citing
"personal reasons." So we figured the movie would wind up somewhere
else on the 2014 fall festival slate, and indeed, it's now at Venice
and the first trailer has arrived.
Starring Tahar Rahim, details about the plot had largely been kept
under the wraps, with only the only hint that Rahim plays a Charlie
Chaplin-esque character, in the movie that caps off the director's
"Love, Death and the Devil" trilogy. But not only does the promo open
a window onto the movie, so too does the official synopsis (Google
translated, but you'll get the gist of it): Mardin, 1915: One night,
driving the Turkish Gendarmerie along all Armenian men. The young
blacksmith Nazareth Manoogian is separated from his family. After he
manages to survive the horror of the genocide, years later it reached
the news that his twin daughters are alive. Owned rediscover the
thought of her, he follows in their footsteps. They lead him from the
deserts of Mesopotamia over Havana to the barren, lonely prairies of
North Dakota. On his odyssey, he meets many different people, angelic
and benevolent characters, but also the devil in human form.
"The Cut" will screen in Competition, and the film runs 138 minutes
long. Trailer below.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/venice-trailer-fatih-akins-the-cut-starring-tahar-rahim-plus-official-synopsis-and-first-images-20140724
July 24 2014
Venice Trailer: Fatih Akin's 'The Cut' Starring Tahar Rahim Plus
Official Synopsis And First Images
Some slight waves were made earlier this year when Fatih Akin pulled
his forthcoming "The Cut" from the Cannes Film Festival citing
"personal reasons." So we figured the movie would wind up somewhere
else on the 2014 fall festival slate, and indeed, it's now at Venice
and the first trailer has arrived.
Starring Tahar Rahim, details about the plot had largely been kept
under the wraps, with only the only hint that Rahim plays a Charlie
Chaplin-esque character, in the movie that caps off the director's
"Love, Death and the Devil" trilogy. But not only does the promo open
a window onto the movie, so too does the official synopsis (Google
translated, but you'll get the gist of it): Mardin, 1915: One night,
driving the Turkish Gendarmerie along all Armenian men. The young
blacksmith Nazareth Manoogian is separated from his family. After he
manages to survive the horror of the genocide, years later it reached
the news that his twin daughters are alive. Owned rediscover the
thought of her, he follows in their footsteps. They lead him from the
deserts of Mesopotamia over Havana to the barren, lonely prairies of
North Dakota. On his odyssey, he meets many different people, angelic
and benevolent characters, but also the devil in human form.
"The Cut" will screen in Competition, and the film runs 138 minutes
long. Trailer below.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/venice-trailer-fatih-akins-the-cut-starring-tahar-rahim-plus-official-synopsis-and-first-images-20140724