- History, Adventure, Mystery, Drama
- 138 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes58%Metacritic56IMDb6.2
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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- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20267/10
"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 territory and it's resources - and those also include people, too. Lucky to escape with his life - though not his voice - his travels now take him on a journey that is frought with danger, peppered with a little kindness, and destined to take him half way across the globe. Will he find his daughters - by now grown up? I like Rahim and am always impressed that his skills as a polyglot can imbue his character with an extra dimension of richness. "Nazaret" has unwillingly sacrificed his voice and gained a visceral purpose, and I thought Rahim delivered an engagingly aloof, almost automated, performance effectively as his trek lurches from frying pan to fire on more than one occasion but never deters him from finding his girls. Honestly, some of the story development might seem a
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Cast
- Tahar RahimNazaret Manoogian
- Simon AbkarianKrikor
- Makram J. KhouryOmar Nasreddin
- Hindi ZahraRakel
- Kevork MalikyanHagob Nakashian
- Bartu KüçükçağlayanMehmet
- Zein FakhouryYoung Arsinée
- Dina FakhouryYoung Lucinée
- Trine DyrholmOrphanage Headmistress
- Arsinée KhanjianFrau Nakashian
Crew
- Fatih AkinDirector
- Mardik MartinScreenplay
- Fatih AkinScreenplay
- Rainer KlausmannDirector of Photography
- Alexander HackeOriginal Music Composer
- Andrew BirdEditor
- Fatih AkinProducer
- Reinhard BrundigProducer
- Karl BaumgartnerProducer
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- Numan AcarAlpasan leader of Deserters
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