In Fatih Akin’s 2014 epic , the "cut" of the title is both a literal and metaphorical wound. Centered on the harrowing events of the Armenian Genocide , the film follows Nazaret Manoogian (Tahar Rahim), a blacksmith from Mardin who is torn from his family and forced into a labor camp by the Ottoman army in 1915. After surviving a near-fatal execution attempt that leaves him mute, Nazaret embarks on a decade-long, transatlantic quest to find his twin daughters. Narrative of Survival and Loss The film is structured as a two-part odyssey: