Venice: 'The Cut' Director Plays Down Turkish Death Threats — hollywoodreporter.com

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin tried to play down death threats against him issued as a result of his film, The Cut, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday. The movie looks at the Armenian genocide, the state-sponsored killing in 1915 of at least 1 million ethnic Armenians in what is now Turkey. The film is highly controversial in Turkey as the official government line is that the well-documented genocide never occurred.

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