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.
10-16-2014
2h 18m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Fatih Akin
Production:
Pyramide Productions, Corazón International, Dorje Film, Kasbah-Film Tanger, International Traders, Jordan Films, Bombero International, Mars Media Entertainment, Pandora Film
Budget:
$16,000,000
Key Crew
Producer:
Fatih Akin
Original Music Composer:
Alexander Hacke
Producer:
Reinhard Brundig
Screenplay:
Fatih Akin
Director of Photography:
Rainer Klausmann
Locations and Languages
Country:
DE; CA; US
Filming:
DE; FR; IT; CA
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Tahar Rahim
Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He has since starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018). garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021).
Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French-Armenian actor.
Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris. He took classes at the Acting International school, then he joined Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil.
Abkarian left the Théâtre du Soleil in 1993 and played in 2001 "Beast on the Moon" by Richard Kalinoski, directed by Irina Brook, a play about the life of a survivor of the Genocide of the Armenians, a role which won him critical acclaims and the Molière of the best comedian.
His first roles in cinema were proposed by French filmaker Cédric Klapisch, who asked him to play in several of his movies, notably in "Chacun cherche son chat" ("When the Cat is Away" (1996) and in "Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire)" en 2003.
He was featured in Sally Potter's Yes (2004), in which he played the lead role.
Abkarian then played Mehdi Ben Barka in the thriller "J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka" by Serge Le Péron, about the kidnapping and the murder of the leader of the Moroccan opposition. He then played in "Prendre Femme" by Ronit Elkabetz which won him several interpretation prizes. Playing different roles and in different genres, he was featured in the adventure "Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas" by Bourlem Guerdjou, in the comedy "Le Démon de midi" by Marie-Pascale Osterriet. He has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's Ararat (2002), he was Albert in Almost Peaceful (2004) by French Director Michel Deville a film about Holocaust survivors, he was featured in "Your Dreams" (2005) by Denis Thybaud. He played the role of villain Alex Dimitrios in the James Bond film, Casino Royale. The character is a Government contractor and arms dealer working against Bond.
He was featured as Sahak in the thriller "Les Mauvais Joueurs" ("The Gamblers") (2007) by Frédéric Balekdjian. He has also been the voice of Ebi in the French version of the animated feature "Persepolis". Abkarian played the role of the eminent Armenian poet Missak Manouchianin in "Army of Crime" (2010) by Robert Guédiguian, a French filmaker based in Marseilles, who is also of Armenian parentage.
He has also played Dariush Bakhshi, the Iranian Special Consul, in the BBC drama Spooks MI-5.
Abkarian is known for his intensity in acting and for his ecclectism in the roles he choses.
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Makram J. Khoury is an Israeli Arab, born May 30, 1945 in Jerusalem. He was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel. He is one of the most accomplished and well-known Israeli Arab actors.
Hindi Zahra (Tamazight: ⵀⵉⵏⴷⵉ ⵣⴰⵀⵕⴰ, Arabic: هندي زهرة, born 20 January 1979 in Khouribga, Morocco) is a Moroccan singer. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name. Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song "Imik Si Mik" are in the Berber Shilha language.
Influenced by singers like Cheikha Rimitti and Umm Kulthum Hindi Zahra has drawn comparisons with Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Billie Holiday, Patti Smith, and Norah Jones.
Zahra was raised by her mother, a dancer and actress, in Khouribga, Morocco. At the age of fifteen, she left school and moved to Paris to live with her father, who had been a soldier. At age 18 she worked at the Louvre.
Zahra wrote her first lyrics and melodies. She is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist. By 2005 she had written about 50 songs of which Beautiful Tango, Oursoul, Try, and Stand Up were first released on the EP Hindi Zahra in 2009 and eleven songs were recorded on Hindi Zahra's first album which was released in January 2010 at the Jazz label Blue Note Records. The video to the opening song Beautiful Tango was made by French director Tony Gatlif. The song Stand Up was chosen for a commercial campaign by Western Union. In June 2010 she collaborated with French musician Blundetto on his debut album Bad Bad Things. In November 2010, Hindi Zahra won the Prix Constantin for Best Album. In February 2011, she won the Victoires de la Musique award for the best World music album.
In 2014 she had roles in the films The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid and in The Cut by Fatih Akin.
In April 2015 her second studio album Homeland was released.
Source: Article "Hindi Zahra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kevork Malikyan
Kevork Malikyan (born 2 June 1943) is a British-Armenian actor and teacher. He played Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Max in Mind Your Language.
During his career, he has worked with renowned directors and actors including Steven Spielberg, Roger Moore, Alan Parker, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins. In addition to film work, he has appeared in numerous television productions, including episodes of The Saint, The Professionals, Mind Your Language, Auf Wiedersehen Pet,The Avengers, Doctor Who and twice in Minder. He played a number of roles in the RSC production, Arabian Nights (December 2009 — January 2010), at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
Bartu Küçükçağlayan (born 23 April 1983, Eskişehir) is a Turkish musician and actor.
Born in Eskişehir, Küçükçağlayan won the Istanbul University State Conservatory in 2001 and went to Istanbul. During his education, he took part in the play Captain from Inishmore in the Kent Players group in 2004. Küçükçağlayan, who took part in the ensemble's Gambler's Choice play between 2005-2007, has also started to act in television series since 2004. He played in the TV series June Night, Çapkın and Binbir Gece. In the 2007-2008 season, he portrayed Adam, one of the leading roles, in the play The Shape of Things by the New Generation Theater troupe. He played the character of Orçun in the TV series Yalan Dünya, which was broadcast between 2012 and 2014. In 2018, he played in the internet series Innocent. He won four awards for his acting in Gambler's Choice and was praised for The Shape of Things.
Küçükçağlayan won several awards, including the best actor award, at the 47th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for his role as Mertkan in the movie "The Majority".
He is also the lead singer of the band Büyük Ev Ablukada under the pseudonym Monster Banavar and plays the guitar. During the quarantine restrictions that started in March 2020, he created a different broadcast concept with the publications called Force Majeure, which he made with Melikşah Altuntaş on his Instagram page, and was watched by thousands of people every night and became a phenomenon.
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Trine Dyrholm
Trine Dyrholm (born 15 April 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter. Dyrholm received national recognition when she placed third in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a 14-year-old singer. Four years later, she again achieved national recognition when she won the Bodil Award for Best Actress in her debut film: the teenage romance Springflod. Dyrholm has won the Bodil Award for Best Actress five times and a Bodil award for Best Supporting Actress twice as well as six Robert Awards in her acting career.
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Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.
Bleibtreu's first appearance on TV was in the late seventies on the children's television series Neues aus Uhlenbusch. This was followed by a role in Ich hatte einen Traum and in the miniseries Mit meinen heißen Tränen. In 1992 he began his acting career at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He had roles in the films Speed Racer, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Run Lola Run, and Das Experiment.
Arsinée Khanjian (born 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon Արսինէ Խանճեան) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Her husband, Egoyan, credits her for inspiring him to further explore his Armenian roots. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile.
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Joel Jackshaw is a Canadian film and television actor. He was a salesperson and owned a car lot before deciding to pursue his long-held dream to act professionally by taking classes at Calgary's Company of Rogues Actors' Studio. One of his first roles was on the AMC western series Hell on Wheels, in which he portrayed Aubrey, an avenging Mormon, for several episodes only a few months into his new job.
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