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The Cut

5.9(109)20142h 18m2

In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

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Status
Released
Budget
$16M
Box office
$1.2M
Language
Arabic
  • deportation
  • genocide
  • period drama
  • armenian genocide
  • historical drama
  • 1910s
  • ottoman empire
  • diaspora
  • search for daughter
  • genocide survivor
  • armenian diaspora
  • 20th century

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Director

Fatih Akin

Produced in

Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Russia, Poland, Jordan, Turkey

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Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereTribeca Film Festival18 Apr 2015
    • Theatrical (limited)NR7 Aug 2015
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival10 Oct 2014
    • Theatrical1524 Apr 2015
  • ArgentinaAR

    • PremiereBuenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema22 Apr 2015
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP14 Jan 2015
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereHamburg Film Festival27 Sept 2014
    • Theatrical1216 Oct 2014
  • IndonesiaID

    • PremiereEurope on Screen30 Apr 2016
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice International Film Festival31 Aug 2014
  • JapanJP

    • Digital / OTTPG1226 Dec 2015
  • RomaniaRO

    • PremiereBucharest International Film Festival22 Apr 2015
    • Theatrical18+8 May 2015
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereBusan International Film Festival3 Oct 2014
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • Digital / OTT162 Oct 2014

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The Cut was released on 16 October 2014.

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    CinemaSerf

    8/19/2026

    7/10

    "Nararet" (Tahar Rahim) lives with his two daughters in what is a rapidly declining Ottoman Empire as the Great War rages around them. The authorities decide that all their Armenian peoples are too be moved out and he becomes separated from his young girls. Looking for them isn't going to be easy as the ensuing power vacuum is seeing both the Turkish army and some marauding opportunists vie for control of the territo…

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