John Bleasdale
★★★☆☆
Medz Yeghern is the synonym Armenians gave to the brutal
extermination of their people by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to the end
of First World War, which also gave a new word to the English language -
'genocide', coined by Raphael Lemkin. Also known as the Armenian
Holocaust, the state-sponsored murders were widely seen as foreshadowing
the modern techniques of murder that would be brought to terrible
perfection by the Nazis during the Second World War. Turkish-German
director Fatih Akin has chosen this catastrophic event for his new epic
film, The Cut (2014), which screened in competition at the 71st Venice Film Festival [August 27 - September 6, 2014] and tells the tale of a father's search for his family.
