This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day a young family man, Nazaret Manoogian, gets deported by the Turkish authorities together with all the other Armenian men from his native village of Mardin. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night the devastated Nazaret learns that his daughters may still be alive and didn’t die like his wife from starvation, violence or rape on death marches. Nazaret goes on a quest to find them and travels from his small village through the Mesopotamian deserts to the sea, always looking for clues that might lead him to his children. Nazaret’s epic journey will take him from Asia to America, from the end to a new beginning…
Release Date: 16 October 2014Runtime: 138 min
Stars:
- Akin Gazi
- Arevik Martirosyan
- Arsinée Khanjian
- Bartu Küçükçaglayan
- Dina Fakhoury
- George Georgiou
- Hindi Zahra
- Kevork Malikyan
- Lara Heller
- Makram Khoury
- Shubham Saraf
- Simon Abkarian
- Tahar Rahim
- Trine Dyrholm
- Zein Fakhoury
Director: Fatih Akin
