Kevork Malikyan
1) The cut
Publisher
Strand Releasing [Distributor]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Armenian
Description
It follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Forced from his home in Mardin, Nazareth gets word that his daughters may still be alive and he travels the globe in search for them. Over the years, his odyssey takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts to Havana and finally to the barren prairies of North Dakota.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrated ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
This film is based on a true story. William Hayes, a naive young American vacationing with his girlfriend in Istanbul, Turkey, tries to smuggle a couple of kilos of hash out of the country. He is caught, thrown into a Turkish prison, and subsequently raped, tortured, and forced into the brutality that defines the inmates' constant struggle for survival. There are other foreigners there, many for smuggling, and word is that the only way out of the...
