Aghet (2010)

8.2/10 90 min Documentary History

Overview

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

Cast

Martina Gedeck

Alma Johansson

Sylvester Groth

Martin Niepage

Sandra Hüller

Tacy Atkinson

Burghart Klaußner

Jakob Künzler

Charlotte Schwab

Karen Jeppe

Ludwig Trepte

Hambardzoum Sahakian

Friedrich von Thun

Henry Morgenthau

Hannah Herzsprung

Tagouhi Antonian

Hermann Beyer

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

Hanns Zischler

Leslie Davis

Thomas Heinze

Oscar Heizer

Gottfried John

Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein

Samuel Finzi

Johannes Lepsius

Stefan Kurt

Raphael Lemkin

Peter Lohmeyer

Wilhelm Litten

Joachim Król

Graf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht

Thomas Thieme

Walter Rößler

Katharina Schüttler

Beatrice Rohner

Axel Milberg

Harry Stürmer

Ulrich Noethen

Armin Wegner

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