Independent U.S. distributors Strand Releasing have revealed that they are planning to bring to Blu-ray acclaimed German director Fatih Akin's (Head-On) new film The Cut (2014), starring Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, and Kevork Malikyan. The release will be available for purchase on January 19, 2016.
Synopsis: The Cut is Fatih Akin's epic drama about one man's journey through the Ottoman Empire after surviving the 1915 Armenian genocide. Deported from his home in Mardin, Nazareth (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet) moves onwards as a forced laborer. When he learns that his twin daughters may still be alive, his hope is revived and he travels to America, via Cuba, to find them. 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.
Fatih Akin on the cinematic and literary inspirations for The Cut: "Elia Kazan's America America (1963), certain aesthetics of the cinematography, as well as shooting the film in English and naturally the long voyage of the young man through the impoverished towns and villages on the way to Constantinople. I had Westerns in my mind to inspire me, The Searchers (1956) by John Ford, and also Homer's The Odyssey certainly was a reference for me: The journey of the hero who tries to return to his family."
Special Features:
Fatih Akin's Environmental Documentary Polluting Paradise (2012, 98 Minutes)